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| Notable Scottish Argentines: Alexander Watson Hutton, Jorge Brown, Juan Peron |
| Total population |
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| 100,000 |
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| Argentina |
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Spanish. Minority speaks English, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots as first language. |
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Roman Catholicism, Protestantism (Presbyterianism, Episcopalianism et al.) |
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Scottish people, Scottish Americans, Scottish Canadians, Scottish Chileans, Scottish Mexicans |
A Scottish Argentine population has existed for 180 years.[1] Frequently, Scottish Argentines are wrongly referred to as English [2]
There are an estimated 100,000 Argentines of Scottish ancestry, the most of any country outside the Anglosphere[3]
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The first Argentine woman to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree was Cecilia Grierson, of Scottish ancestry.[4]
There have been Scottish Gaelic classes in Buenos Aires for over ten years now, and they are taken by Guillermo Santana MacKinlay, who is himself a Scottish-Argentine. [2]
The so-called "father of Argentine football" was a Glaswegian schoolteacher, Alexander Watson Hutton, who first taught football at St Andrew's School in Buenos Aires in the early 1880s. On 4 February 1884[5] he founded the Buenos Aires English High School [sic] where he continued to instruct the pupils in the game.[6]. In 1891 Hutton established the Association Argentine Football League [7], the first football league outside of the British Isles [8]. Five clubs competed but only one season was ever played.
His son Arnold Watson Hutton (1886-1951) was an Argentine football striker for the Argentina national team. He also played cricket, tennis and waterpolo for Argentina.
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