1. Douglas Morris Edmunds was a Scottish Highland Games competitor and strongman.
16 Facts About Douglas Edmunds
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Douglas Edmunds was a co-founder of the International Federation of Strength Athletes and Highlander Challenge World Championships.
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Douglas Edmunds attended St Colombia's RC prep school in Largs and St Joseph's College, Dumfries, where he played rugby for the South of Scotland schools match against Wales and won titles in shot put and discus.
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Douglas Edmunds attended Glasgow University before switching to the University of Strathclyde, where he gained a doctorate in metallurgy in 1969.
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Douglas Edmunds worked in Zambia as a mining engineer for three years in the early 1970s before returning to Scotland.
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Douglas Edmunds worked at Drakemire Dairy Ltd, the family business, between 1982 and 2000, alongside his brother John and brother-in-law Kevin Connelly, eventually becoming the managing director.
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Douglas Edmunds won the world caber tossing championships in 1976 and 1978.
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Douglas Edmunds organised the World Highland Games Championships in Lagos, Nigeria in 1981.
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In 2007, Douglas Edmunds created the Goddodin Games in a bid to revive the Highland Games and strongman sports, which he felt had become tired.
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Douglas Edmunds believed that the sports should be about engaging and entertaining crowds.
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Douglas Edmunds has written three books: The Warrior Breed, The World's Greatest Tosser, and Giants and Legends.
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Douglas Edmunds's father, born John Morris, was part of a group of Scottish nationalists who plotted to steal the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.
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Douglas Edmunds later changed his surname to Edmunds after being arrested for bigamy and to avoid charges of desertion from the army.
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Douglas Edmunds married Moira Edmunds in 1970, with whom he had two children, and separated in the 1980s.
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In 1992 he married Linda Douglas Edmunds and had another child by her.
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Gregor Douglas Edmunds, his son by Moira, is a strength sports competitor, former Scotland's Strongest Man and Highland Games champion.