title: Alexander McLaren (rugby union)
text: # Alexander McLaren (rugby union)
  
  Alexander McLaren (29 August 1910 – 24 February 1974) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
  
  ## Rugby Union career
  
  ### Amateur career
  
  McLaren played for Durham City. He captained the side.
  
  ### Provincial career
  
  He played for Anglo-Scots in the December 1929 match against Provinces District.
  
  He played for Scotland Possibles in the 1931 final trial match.
  
  He played for Durham County.
  
  ### International career
  
  He was capped once for Scotland in 1931.
  
  ## Rowing career
  
  For many years he stroked a Durham City crew.
  
  ## Farming career
  
  His grandfather and then father owned a farm at East Parks at Brancepeth, in the family since 1883. This passed to Alexander on his death in 1931.
  
  Alexander was born at the farm. He was noted for keeping pigs.
  
  ## Family
  
  His grandfather Peter McLaren from Scotland married Janet Pattullo from Angus, Scotland. They moved to Durham and took on a farm in 1883.
  
  His father was Henry Pattullo MacLaren (1873-1931) was then born in Durham. His mother was Agnes Mary Tiernan Graham (1878-1950) from Paisley.
  
  Alexander married Marguerite Frances Bell (1912-2001) in 1938 at St. Helen's Church in Low Fell.
  
  