Career
He played as a wicket-keeper and took a record 119 catches and 40 stumpings for them. In first-class cricket his tally of 105 dismissals is easily the most by a cricketer for Scotland. In club cricket for Perthshire and took 674 dismissals.
He was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1974 New Year Honours.
He died on 8 December 2014 at the age of 83.