Tom Grierson

The son of an Inverness gamekeeper, Tom Grierson was born in Scotland but lived and worked in England in the 1920s. When the international triangular clay pigeon shooting match between England, Ireland, and Scotland was inaugurated in 1927, Grierson chose to represent the country of his birth and helped Scotland dominate the series in the early days. His father Andrew was also alongside him on several occasions in the Scottish team.

A London County Council architect by profession, Grierson lived in Wembley, not far from the West London Shooting Grounds, but regularly ventured back to Scotland to take part in clay pigeon shoots that were very popular north of the border in the early days of the sport. Selected as one of the four British entrants for the individual trap event at the 1924 Olympics, both Grierson and Cyril Mackworth-Praed never got to take part.