Education
Jeffrey was educated at Saint Mary"s School, Melrose and Merchiston Castle School.
Jeffrey was educated at Saint Mary"s School, Melrose and Merchiston Castle School.
His nicknames are "The Great White Shark" and "JJ", the former widely thought to be because of his blonde "thatch of hair", though in a recent book called "The Grudge" by Tom English, it is a nickname that was given to him because of his very white skin. Richard Bath has described him as "one of the most galvanising sights in Five Nations rugby throughout the 1980s and early 1990s."
He was also a British and Irish Lion with Scotland team mate Finlay Calder in 1989. Jeffrey"s "day job" was his Borders farm, of which he had only one regret: "If I stand on a hill I can see England."
In 1988, after playing football with the Calcutta Cup along Princes Street in Edinburgh with England"s Dean Richards, Jeffrey received a six-month ban from the Scottish Rugby Union.
Richards received just a one match sentence from the English Rugby Football Union.
The trophy was severely dented, and cost hundreds of pounds to repair. During the 1990 Hong Kong Sevens, Jeffrey played for the Scottish side, but when they were knocked out, he went on to play for Wales as they were suffering from too many injuries.
Recently he has been involved in coaching the Scotland youth teams and commentating at rugby games on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland"s Sportsound programme. When interviewed he came up with the memorable comment: "Scoreboards do not lie!".
He was also a member of the British Lions on the tour to Australia in 1989. He has been a member of the International Rugby Board (Now called World Rugby) Council and head of referees since 2010.