About Sam Boyd Campbell
Lived 1889 – 1971 (aged 81). Sam Boyd Campbell was a rugby union player.
Samuel Burnside Boyd Campbell (29 June 1889 — 28 February 1971) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in British India, Campbell was the son of Irish Presbyterian missionaries and attended Foyle College in Derry, followed by medical studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Campbell gained 12 Ireland caps as a forward between 1911 and 1913.
Campbell was a professor of medicine at Queen's University Belfast and a consultant physician to Royal Victoria Hospital. He retired to Ballycastle, County Antrim, in 1954.
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Sam Boyd Campbell was born on 29 June 1889.
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Sam Boyd Campbell died on 28 February 1971.
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Sam Boyd Campbell was a rugby union player.
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