Chris Laidlaw - Academic and Rugby Union

Academic and Rugby Union

Laidlaw attended Otago University from 1962 to 1966, after which he went overseas with the All Blacks. In 1969 Laidlaw took up his Rhodes Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford.

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