Scottish settlement in Argentina
- Scottish settlement in Argentina
A Scottish Argentine population has existed for 180 years. [ [http://www.clan-macrae.org.uk/scotland/clannews.cfm?Task=display&ID=65 Clan Macrae news ] ] Frequently, Scottish Argentines are "wrongly" referred to as English [ [http://members.tripod.com/~futbolafa/historia.htm "Alejandro Watson Hutton... Este inglés, graduado en humanidades en la Universidad de Edimburgo"] ]
The first Argentine woman to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree was Cecilia Grierson, of Scottish ancestry. [ [http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/tartanday.htm#argentina Tartan Day Events ] ]
There have been Scottish Gaelic classes in Buenos Aires for over ten years now, and they are taken by Guillermo Santana MacKinlay, who is himself a Scottish-Argentine. [http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/clasaichean/Argentina/]
Introduction of football
The so-called "father of Argentine football" was a Glaswegian schoolteacher, Alexander Watson Hutton, who first taught football at St Andrew's School in Buenos Aires in the early 1880s. On 4 February 1884 [ [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/alumni.html "Alumni Athletic Club"] - RSSSF. URL accessed on June 6 2006.] he founded the Buenos Aires English High School [sic] where he continued to instruct the pupils in the game. [ [http://www.baehs.com.ar "Buenos Aires English High School"] URL accessed on June 6 2006.] . In 1891 Hutton established the "Association Argentine Football League" [ [http://www.rsssf.com/tablesa/arg1891.html "Argentina 1891"] - RSSSF. URL accessed on June 6 2006.] , the first football league outside of the British Isles [ [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1786986,00.html Observer Sport Monthly (June 4 2006) - "Salvation army "] URL accessed on June 10 2006.] . Five clubs competed but only one season was ever played.
His son Arnold Watson Hutton (1886-1951) was an Argentine football striker for the Argentina national team. He also played cricket, tennis and waterpolo for Argentina.
References
External links
* [http://www.sanandres.esc.edu.ar/ St Andrew's Scots School]
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