Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan (16 March 1928 – 20 March 2025) was a Scottish international rugby union player. In his rugby career he played as a Scrum half.
Rugby union career
Amateur career A Rhodes Scholar educated at Exeter College, Oxford, MacLachlan played for Oxford University.The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
He then moved to play for London Scottish.
Provincial career MacLachlan played provincially in Southern Rhodesia. He played for Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Mashonaland.
International career MacLachlan was capped for four times in 1954.
He was also capped by the Barbarians.
Outside of rugby
Architect MacLachlan studied architecture in Cape Town University. He became an Architect in Harare (then Salisbury) and in Blantyre, Malawi.
Teaching MacLachlan became a teacher in Canada at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, Canada. He later became Headmaster at the school.
He then ran an Independent Schools Service in Hong Kong.
Later life and death MacLachlan lived in retirement in Canada. He died in Vancouver on 20 March 2025, at the age of 96.
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