Hely Hutchinson Almond

Hely Hutchinson Almond (12 August 1832 – 7 March 1903) was a Scottish classics scholar, headmaster of Loretto School from 1862 to 1903.

Early life Almond was born in 1832 in Glasgow, a son of the Reverend George Almond.

Almond was one of the umpires of the first international rugby match at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, in the 1871 Scotland versus England rugby union match, and was a supporter of the formation of the Scottish Football Union in 1873, which in 1924 was renamed as the Scottish Rugby Union. As an important of contributor to rugby football, in 2007 he was nominated for inclusion in the IRB Hall of Fame, although not inducted.

Family On 29 April 1876, in Durham, Almond married Miss Eleanora Frances Tristam, the sister of a boy he had educated at Loretto, and on 20 February 1877 their first child, George Hely Hutchinson Almond, was born. In 1878, a daughter, Christiana Georgiana, came into the world, and a second son, Henry Tristam, was born at Linkfield House.

George Hely Hutchinson Almond became a physician, and during the First World War was killed at Caix, France, while serving as a medical officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the 3rd Cavalry Field Ambulance.