Thomas Arthur Nelson
Thomas Arthur Nelson (died on 9 April 1917, aged 40) was a Scottish rugby union player, in business as a book publisher.
He played for Oxford University RFC and was capped for Scotland in 1898.[1]
The John Buchan novel The Thirty-Nine Steps is dedicated to him. Nelson and Buchan had been friends since Nelson was an undergraduate at University College, Oxford.[2] He became head of the family publishing firm of Thomas Nelson and Sons, which employed Buchan as literary advisor and was one of the writer's publishers.[3]
He was killed in World War I at the Battle of Arras[4] while serving as Captain with the Lothians and Border Horse.[1]
References
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- 1 2 Bath, p109
- ↑ Adam Smith, Janet (1979). John Buchan and His World. Thames and Hudson. pp. 24–25. ISBN 0-500-13067-1.
- ↑ John Buchan and His World. pp. 51–52.
- ↑ John Buchan and His World. p. 65.
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