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Biography
Colonel James Dunlop was a Scotland international rugby football player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Dunlop played for West of Scotland.
International career
He was capped once for Scotland on 8 March 1875.
Military career
Dunlop was in the Royal Horse Artillery, entering the army in 1875. He rose through the ranks:- Captain in 1884; Major in 1892; Lieutenant - Colonel in 1900; and finally Colonel in 1904. He took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879-80; the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1886-87; and the Second Boer War in 1901–02.
Family
Dunlop was unmarried.
He was half-brother to Colin Dunlop of Lockerbie House, Dumfriesshire. His father was Colin Robert Dunlop of Fullarton House, Lanarkshire. His mother, Ann Maxwell Black, was a daughter of James Black of Craigmaddie.
His ancestors included John Dunlop of Garnkirk, Cadder who was a burgess of Glasgow in 1631. Dunlop of Garnkirk's brother received a baronetcy, now extinct. Another ancestor was Colin Dunlop of Carmyle, who was Provost of Glasgow in 1770. Dunlop of Carmyle's grandson was Colin Dunlop of Tollcross, M.P. for Glasgow in 1835.