John Lisle Hall MacFarlane

John McFarlane

Full name	John Lisle Hall MacFarlane
Date of birth	(1851-06-19)19 June 1851
Place of birth	Montego Bay, Jamaica
Date of death	17 March 1874(1874-03-17) (aged 22)
Place of death	Edinburgh, Scotland
University	Edinburgh University
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) - Edinburgh University Edinburgh Academicals () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) - Edinburgh District () National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1871-1873  Scotland 3 ((0))

Position(s)	Forward
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
-	Edinburgh University Edinburgh Academicals		()
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
-	Edinburgh District		()
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1871-1873	Scotland	3	((0))

Dr John Lisle Hall McFarlane MB ChB (19 June 1851 – 17 March 1874) was a Scottish physician and international rugby union player and sportsman.

MacFarlane was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1851 to John MacFarlane, and Edinburgh-educated surgeon, who had married the daughter of a Jamaican estate owner. MacFarlane's middle name of Lisle was taken from his mother's forbearers who held connections to the Baron's Lisle. MacFarlane grew up in Scotland and was educated at several of the country's finest schools. He attended the Edinburgh Institute of Maths before switching as a boarder at the private Abbey Street School in St Andrews. It was at the establishments that he developed his enjoyment of sport and where he began to play rugby. In 1869 he left Abbey Street to enrol at Craigmount School, supposedly just to get into the cricket team.

MacFarlane matriculated to Edinburgh University where he studied medicine. There he excelled across the sporting fields, playing cricket, representing the University in rugby and in athletics was the school's champion in hurdles, long jump and sprinting. In 1871 MacFarlane's ability on the ruby field saw him selected as the sole member of the Edinburgh University team to be selected for the Scotland national team in the first ever rugby international. MacFarlane was selected in the forward positions for the first international, in which Scotland beat England by a goal to nil. MacFarlane was selected for the next international the following year, again against England. On this occasion, England were victorious. MacFarlane's final international was the 1873 meeting between Scotland and England, where MacFarlane, now representing Edinburgh Academical Football Club, played in the three quarters position. The game finished as a scoreless draw.

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