- Date of Birth29 / 08 / 1936
- Lions Tours1959
- International CapsScotland / Lions
- Lions Origin SchoolsGeorge Heriot's School
- Lions Origin ClubsUniversity College Cork, Royal Signals, London Scottish, Barbarians, Leicester Tigers, Aberdeen GSFP, North Midlands, Aberdeenshire, Heriots, Ballymena, Cambridge University RFC
Ken Scotland was a player ahead of his time. JPR Williams and Andy Irvine may be the first names that spring to mind on the subject of attacking Lions full-backs, but the art they perfected was the one pioneered by Scotland two decades earlier.
Scotland, who turned 23 on the 1959 Tour to Australia and New Zealand, had a peerless sense of both the timing of his incursions into the three-quarter line and the pace at which to make them.
He scored 12 tries in the 22 appearances that made him the second most-played Lion on the Tour, including a hat-trick in the opening match against Hawke's Bay and a spectacular solo effort that won the game against Thames Valley-Bay of Plenty.
The New Zealand Rugby Almanac rated him the Lion "most likely to win a match for his side" and named him as one of its five players of the year, alongside fellow tourists Bev Risman, Rhys Williams and Terry Davies.
Scotland was one of the most versatile Lions performers too. A Scottish cricket international, he also turned out on the 1959 Tour as a centre, stand-off and scrum-half, appearing in the midfield in the victorious final Test.