Allen Sloan was a Scottish rugby union player.[1]

He was capped nine times between 1914 and 1921 for Scotland.[1] He also played for Edinburgh Academicals.[1]

He was the father of Donald Sloan, who was also capped for Scotland.[1]

Sloan's father Dr Allen Thomson Sloan was a general practitioner in Edinburgh.[2] Sloan followed his father into general practice. In 1924 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[3][4] Sloan died in 1952.

References

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  • Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  1. ^ a b c d Bath, p139
  2. ^ "Dr Allen Thomson Sloan". BMJ. 1 (3295): 327. 1924. PMC 2303951.
  3. ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  4. ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.