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Name: AUCHINLECK, Hugh Alexander (Dr.)
Birth Date: 10 June 1849
Death Date: 24 Mar 1929
First Date: 1922
Profession: Doctor, Private Practice
Area: Kilindini Rd., Mombasa, 1930 c/o Dr. Jewell, Nairobi
Married: In Ireland 11 July 1883 Rhoda Elizabeth Johnston
Children: Sydney Elie b. 1885; Evelyn Margaret b. 1886; Cecil Rhoda b. 1892
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Red 22
General Information:
Web: Less than two years before the foundation of the GAA in 1884, another Tyroneman, Hugh Alexander Auchinleck, a native of Strabane and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, had been largely instrumental with Michael Cusack in establishing the Dublin Hurling Club and in drawing up the rules of hurling. Apart from the contributions of Stewart and Auchinleck at national level, Tyrone had little involvement in the first phase of development of the GAA. It was not until the dawn of the twentieth century, when the Gaelic revival movement was resurgent nationally, that the Association started to take root in Tyrone and in the north more generally.