Career
A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he played four times for the Ireland cricket team in the 1920s, including two first-class matches against Scotland. He also played first-class cricket for Dublin University. He made his first-class debut playing for Dublin University against Essex in July 1922.
His Ireland debut followed later the same month when he played against Scotland in a first-class match.
Almost two years later, he again played first-class cricket for Dublin University, this time against Northamptonshire. This was followed the next month by a match for Ireland against Scotland.
He played two non first-class matches for Ireland in August 1924, both against the Master Control Console. He played one final first-class match for Dublin University, again against Northamptonshire, in 1925, a match that also featured the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. Personal McCausland was born into a family with a long medical tradition.
The 1901 Census records his address as 79 Merrion Square, a prestigious address in the heart of Georgian Dublin.
His father, Richard Bolton McCausland was a well known surgeon at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His mother, Charlotte Maria McCausland, was the daughter of the influential French Neurologist Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard. McCausland was called up to the Western Front in 1918.
His mother Charlotte later wrote:
We have left Ireland since 1923, life was no longer possible for the Loyalists.