Stuart Laidlaw

Stuart Ralston Laidlaw was a Canadian lacrosse player who won an Olympic gold medal with the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Born in Havelock, Ontario, on 2 March 1877, he excelled at track and field and football and began playing lacrosse while studying law at Wesley College in Winnipeg, where he captained the team in his final year. He opened the firm Taylor and Laidlaw after graduating, played for the Winnipeg Victorias and then joined the Shamrock Lacrosse Team that won the 1903 Provincial Championship and went to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. There the Shamrocks beat the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association 8 to 2 in the final. He later worked as a barrister, bailiff and legal adviser to the county court, retired to Vancouver and died there on 22 November 1960. Olympedia notes that he is sometimes wrongly called Hilliard Laidlaw.