Gurth Hoyer Millar - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Dec 13, 1929 Chelsea, England, United Kingdom Died on 06 Mar 2014 (aged 84)

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About Gurth Hoyer Millar

  • Gurth Christian Hoyer-Millar (13 December 1929 – 6 March 2014) was a Scottish sportsman who played international rugby union for Scotland.
  • He also played first-class cricket with the Oxford University Cricket Club. Hoyer-Millar spent his early sporting years at Harrow School, where he captained their cricket team in both 1947 and 1948.
  • He was awarded rugby union and boxing blues at Oxford University and also kept wicket for the university in two first-class matches in 1952, against Kent and Warwickshire.He was capped just once for the Scotland national rugby union team.
  • His only Test came against Ireland at Murrayfield in the 1953 Five Nations Championship.Though he was called to the bar by Middle Temple, Hoyer-Millar did not practice as a lawyer, instead working for BP and J Sainsbury, where he was the first chairman of the Homebase DIY chain.
  • He was chairman of Bonhams auctioneers from 1988 to 1996 and served as a non-executive director of the Hudson's Bay Company. He stood as a Liberal candidate in Kensington South in 1959.
  • He stood for Southend West against Conservative incumbent Paul Channon twice, in 1964 and 1966 On the first occasion he finished ahead of Labour candidate and newspaper/broadcast journalist Rex Winsbury.
  • He was also an unsuccessful candidate at Aberdeenshire East in 1970 and Eastbourne in October 1974

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