title: Alexander Aitken (rugby union)
text: # Alexander Aitken (rugby union)
  
  Alexander Aitken (8 January 1869 – 7 July 1925) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
  
  ## Rugby Union career
  
  ### Amateur career
  
  Aitken played club rugby for Edinburgh Institution F.P.
  
  ### Provincial career
  
  He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1888 inter-city match.
  
  He played for East of Scotland District in their match against West of Scotland District on 26 January 1889.
  
  ### International career
  
  He was capped just the once for Scotland, in 1889. He played in the match against Ireland on 16 February.
  
  ## Family
  
  His father was Alexander Dunn Aitken (1818–1902) and his mother was Elizabeth Smith McClelland (1832-1915). He was one of their ten children.
  
  