Jim Aitken

Jim Aitken (born 22 November 1947 in Penicuik)^[1] is a British businessman and former Scotland international rugby union player. He won 24 international caps and scored one try, playing at loose head prop, between 1977 and 1984,^[1] and captained the Scottish Grand Slam side in the 1984 Five Nations Championship.^[2]

He is now a successful businessman, owning one of Scotland's largest grain merchants and having sold his previous company, Scotmalt, in 2003. In 2009, he donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party, becoming the second-largest donor to the Scottish branch of the party.^[2]

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b "Jim Aitken - Scotland Rugby Player". Sporting Heroes. http://www.sporting-heroes.net/rugby-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=3042. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
^ ^a ^b Peterkin, Tom (3 May 2009). "Rugby star's £100k pledge to Tories". Scotland on Sunday. http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Rugby-star39s-100k--pledge.5230280.jp. Retrieved May 3, 2009.

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