Ross, Alfred C[lunies]

Education

Student United College 1868-1869 N. Phil.; Math. 1; Anat. & Physiol.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1851 son of John George Clunies Ross, (‘King of the Cocos’) and S’pia Dupong. [Cocos Islands]

Attended Madras College, St Andrews (7).

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - medical student, but did not graduate.

Played rugby for Scotland in the first international , 1871. [Rugby player]

Returned to the Cocos Islands and acted as the Islands doctor.

Moved to North Borneo in 1888. Became seriously ill in 1901. Returned to Cocos in 1902.

Death

Died 1903.

Sources

  • J. S. Hughes, Kings of the Cocos, London, 1950
  • Madras College website