James "Tuck" (and Hugh) McIntyre
James McIntyre, nick-named "Tuck" because of his rotund figure, was one of two footballing siblings. His brother, Hugh, older by a year, would from twenty play for Rangers for three seasons from 1877, for Scotland in 1880 before, as one of the first Scots to do so, moving South, to Blackburn, and living out the rest of his life in England.
But for Tuck it was almost the opposite. As Hugh left Rangers so he at twenty-one joined, remaining at the club, a half-back, for a dozen years and on retirement lived until his death within a stone-throw of Kinning Park and both Ibroxes. In fact the only parallel was that during his playing career he also would win just a single cap.
The two boys were sons of a Blythswood grocer, but one from Inveraray, their mother also born outwith the city, in Campsie. Tuck himself was born in 1858 in Anderston cum Partick and presumably above the then shop and began his working-life as a gas-fitter but interestingly also a bell-hanger. However, during and after football he became and remained a "Spirit Merchant", a publican until the business failed and he then worked as a Cargo Checker.
In his personal life, he married late, in 1897, aged thirty-nine, his wife Glasgow-girl, Isabella Wood. She was twenty-two. They were to have two sons, only one of whom would survive infancy. And that would be more or less it. He remained a familiar figure at the club and to Rangers fans until his death at the age of eighty-four in 1943, his brother having passed away almost four decades earlier in London. He would be survived by Isabella by five years and both are buried with his parents, their children and their surviving son's wife in the family plot, now restored by Rangers' fans, at Craigton Cemetery.
Birth Locator:
1858 - 1, Dumbarton Road, Milton, Glasgow
Residence Locations:
1861 - 31, Cadogan St., Blythswood, Glasgow
1871-95 - 188, Holm St., Blythswood, Glasgow
1901-43 - 13, Walmer Terr. (now 407, Paisley Road), Plantation, Glasgow
Death Locator:
1943 - 407, Paisley Road West, Glasgow
Grave Locator:
Craigton Cemetery & Crematorium, Renfrewshire
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