Gordon Waddell
| Birth name | Gordon Herbert Waddell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 April 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 August 2012 (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St. Mary's School, Melrose Fettes College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Pembroke College, Cambridge Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 the only Scottish stand off to be a double Lion. 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.