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Colonel Michael John "Mike" Campbell-Lamerton (1 August 1933–17 March 2005) was a British army officer and rugby union player. Despite being a career soldier on active service, he would captain the Scotland rugby team a number of times.〔Bath, p123-4〕 Richard Bath writes of him that he was: :"''A strong scrummager who held his own in the at the line-out and was a considerable presence in the loose, Campbell-Lamerton excelled in the second row for Scotland from his first cap in 1961 until his 23rd in 1966.''"〔 Allan Massie provides a more colourful description of him: :"''The sight of captain M.J. Campbell-Lamerton of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment surging round the tail of a line-out like an enraged hippopotamus was one of the most stirring spectacles in Scottish Rugby. A huge man, 6 feet 5 inches and often over 17 stones, he made an abrupt and unheralded entry into top-class Rugby for a Combined Services team against a Scottish Select at Murrayfield in December 1960. The game was played in a thick haar, and almost the only impression spectators retained of it was of this man-mountain surging out of mist as a mastodon from a primeval swamp. It took him into the Scottish team and he stayed there til 1966 to win twenty-three caps."〔Massie, p174〕 ==Early life== Campbell-Lamerton was born in Valletta, Malta, the elder of two sons of Lieutenant-Commander Robert Campbell-Lamerton, and his wife, Margaret. His father was killed in action in 1943 on North Atlantic convoy duty, he was educated at Ottershaw School near Windsor, Berkshire.〔 National Service took him to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) in 1952, the start of 33 years' service in the Army during which he served in Korea and Cyprus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Campbell-Lamerton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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