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Jimmie Johnston

Scottish rugby union footballer (1925-2003)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ28837211 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Johnston (17 September 1925 – 7 January 2003) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer. Johnston played as a Lock.

Rugby career

Amateur career

Johnston played for Melrose.

Provincial career

Johnston led a South team to play against South Africa in 1951–52.

He played in the first Scottish Inter-District Championship in season 1953–54.

International career

He was capped for Scotland 5 times between 1951 and 1952, with 4 caps in Five Nations matches.

Business

He founded Baxter Johnson Oils.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jimmie Johnston” is scottish rugby union footballer (1925-2003). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jimmie, Johnston and Scottish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 2003, 1951, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-09-17. For this dossier, Jimmie, Johnston and Scottish is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28837211. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925, 2003, 1951 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jimmie Johnston” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.