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{{ Infobox rugby biography
| name = [[Sir]] Augustus Grant-Asher {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}}
| image =
| birth_name= Augustus Gordon Grant-Asher
| birth_date= {{birth date|1861|12|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Poona]], [[India]].<ref name=Godwin/>
| height =
| weight =
| ru_position = [[Half-back (rugby union)|Half-back]]
| ru_amateuryears = - 1885 1886
| ru_amateurclubs =[[Oxford University RFC|Oxford University]] [[Edinburgh Wanderers RFC|Edinburgh Wanderers]] [[Fettesian-Lorettonian Club|Fettesian-Lorettonians]]
| ru_clubyears =
| ru_proclubs =
| ru_clubcaps =
| ru_clubpoints =
| ru_provinceyears = 1885 1886
| ru_province = [[Edinburgh District (rugby union)|Edinburgh District]] [[East of Scotland District (rugby union)|East of Scotland District]]
| ru_provincecaps =
| ru_provincepoints =
| ru_nationalyears =1882-86
| ru_nationalteam = [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]]
| ru_nationalcaps = 7
| ru_nationalpoints = (2gls, 1 try)
|death_date={{death date and age|1930|6|15|1861|12|18|df=y}}
|death_place= [[Kingussie]], [[Scotland]]
|module2= {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes
| office = President of the Scottish Rugby Union
| term_start = 1929
| term_end = 1930
| predecessor = [[David McCowan (rugby union)|David McCowan]]
| successor = [[Andrew Balfour]]
| prior_term =
| order = 50th
}}
}}
'''Sir Augustus Gordon Grant-Asher''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (18 December 1861 – 15 June 1930)<ref name=Godwin>Godwin, p30</ref><ref name="billiongraves.com">{{Cite web|url=https://billiongraves.com/grave/Augustus-Gordon-Grant-Asher/9946730|title=Sir Augustus Gordon Grant Asher C.B.E. 1861 - 1930 BillionGraves Record|website=BillionGraves}}</ref> was a [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]] international [[rugby union]] player.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/598.html|title=Augustus Gordon Grant-Asher|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref> He also represented Scotland as a cricket player.<ref name=Bath1>Bath, p104</ref>

==Rugby Union career==

===Amateur career===

Grant-Asher went to [[Loretto School]], and went up to [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] after that.<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U205401 ASHER, Sir Augustus Gordon Grant], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)</ref>

He played for [[Oxford University RFC]],<ref name=Bath1/> as well as the [[Fettesian-Lorettonian Club]], and [[Edinburgh Wanderers]].<ref name=Godwin/>

===Provincial career===

He was capped by [[Edinburgh District (rugby union)|Edinburgh District]] for the inter-city match in 1885 while with [[Edinburgh Wanderers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/register?countrykey=0&showgiftvoucherclaimingoptions=false&gift=false&nextpage=%2faccount%2flogin%3freturnurl%3d%252fviewer%252fbl%252f0001055%252f18851207%252f044%252f0004&rememberme=false&cookietracking=false&partnershipkey=0&newsletter=false&offers=false&registerreason=none&showsubscriptionoptions=false&showcouponmessaging=false&showfreetrialmessaging=false&showregisteroptions=false&showloginoptions=false&isonlyupgradeable=false|title=Register | British Newspaper Archive|website=britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}</ref>

He was capped by [[East of Scotland District (rugby union)|East of Scotland District]] for their match against [[West of Scotland District (rugby union)|West of Scotland District]]. This was at the end of January 1886; and he was now with [[Fettesian-Lorettonian Club|Fettesian-Lorettonians]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/register?countrykey=0&showgiftvoucherclaimingoptions=false&gift=false&nextpage=%2faccount%2flogin%3freturnurl%3d%252fviewer%252fbl%252f0001964%252f18860130%252f038%252f0003&rememberme=false&cookietracking=false&partnershipkey=0&newsletter=false&offers=false&registerreason=none&showsubscriptionoptions=false&showcouponmessaging=false&showfreetrialmessaging=false&showregisteroptions=false&showloginoptions=false&isonlyupgradeable=false|title=Register | British Newspaper Archive|website=britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk}}</ref>

===International career===

One of the earliest Scottish players, he was capped 7 times for {{nrut|Scotland}} between 1882 and 1886.<ref name=Bath1/> He played at [[rugby union positions|half back]].<ref name=Godwin/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/player/598.html|title=Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Augustus Grant-Asher - Test matches|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref>

R.J. Phillips, the first historian of Scottish rugby said:
:''"no one has arisen to bear comparison with [[A.R. Don Wauchope]] at quarter or half back, where he and A.G.G. Asher still hold claim as the greatest pair to have played together for their country."''<ref>Massie, p10</ref>

===Administrative career===

He was president of the [[Scottish Rugby Union]] from 1929 to 1930.<ref name=Godwin/>

==Cricket career==

At Oxford, he played in 10 [[first-class cricket]] matches for the [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] team in 1883 and 1884, winning a [[Blue (university sport)|Blue]] for cricket in 1883.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27537/27537.html | title = Player profile: Augustus Asher| publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 3 March 2013}}</ref> He also played for the [[Scotland national cricket team]].<ref name=Godwin/><ref name=Bath1/>

==Other sports==

Grant-Asher was also Scotland's [[pole vault]] champion.<ref name=Godwin/>

==Law career==

In later life he was a [[Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet|Writer to the Signet]].<ref name=Godwin/>

==Honours==

He was appointed CBE in the [[1918 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30730 |supp=y |date=4 June 1918 |page=6687}}</ref> and [[knighted]] in the [[1927 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33280 |supp=y |date=31 May 1927 |page=3603}}</ref>

==Death==

He is buried in the churchyard of Insh Church, [[Kincraig]], near [[Kingussie]], Highland.<ref name="billiongraves.com"/>

==See also==
* [[List of cricket and rugby union players#Scottish|List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

;Sources
{{refbegin}}
# Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 {{ISBN|1-905326-24-6}})
# Godwin, Terry ''Complete Who's Who of International Rugby'' (Cassell, 1987, {{ISBN|0-7137-1838-2}})
# Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; {{ISBN|0-904919-84-6}})
{{refend}}

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