Norrie Rowan

Not to be confused with Ronnie Cowan or Rowen Shepherd.

Inside the Edinburgh Vaults, partly excavated by Norrie Rowan.

Norman "Norrie" Rowan is a Scottish international rugby union player, from Edinburgh, who played for Scotland.

He played for Boroughmuir RFC, and was also nominated for Rugby World's "Unsung Hero" award in 1989 - he was the only Scot to be given an award in that year,^[1] after playing in all Five Nations matches that year.^[2]

He is currently a businessman, and entrepreneur, working in construction and runs a bar in Edinburgh. Rowan helped excavate the Edinburgh Vaults, after he found a tunnel leading to them in the 1980s. From this tunnel he helped Romanian rugby player Christian Raducanu escape the Romanian secret police and seek political asylum weeks before the Romanian uprising of 1989.^[3]

He has a son, Norman Rowan.

References

• Starmer-Smith, Nigel & Robertson, Ian (eds) The Whitbread Rugby World '89 (Lennard Books, 1988 ISBN 1-85291-038)

1. ^ Starmer-Smith & Robertson, p100
2. ^ Starmer-Smith & Robertson, p133
3. ^ Reid, Alisdair. Romania comes in from the cold, The Sunday Herald, November 5, 2006.

External links

• The Caves, Edinburgh venue run by Norrie Rowan
• Horror tale is stranger than fiction, article mentioning Norrie Rowan.

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