Gordon Waddell

Gordon Waddell
BornGordon Herbert Waddell
(1937-04-12)12 April 1937
Glasgow, Scotland
Died13 August 2012(2012-08-13) (aged 75)
London, England
SchoolSt. Mary's School, Melrose
Fettes College
UniversityPembroke College, Cambridge
Stanford University
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1958-61 Cambridge University RUFC
Devonport Services RFC
Royal Navy
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1957-60 Barbarians 12
1957-62 Scotland 18
1959-62 British and Irish Lions

Gordon Herbert Waddell (12 April 1937 – 13 August 2012) was a Scottish rugby union player, a South African politician, and the son of Herbert Waddell. He played for Scotland, the Barbarians and on two British and Irish Lions tours. In fact he is only one of two Scottish stand offs to be a double Lion, the other being Finn Russell. He had 18 caps between 1957 and 1962 - this record for a Scotland fly-half was only later broken by John Rutherford. He played 12 times for the Barbarians between 1957 and 1960, scoring in three matches including their 1958 match against East Africa in Nairobi on 28 May 1958. In 1962 he was the controlling influence in Scotland's first win in Wales since the 1930s, a feat not repeated for another twenty years.