Jim Aitken is a British

United Kingdom

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 businessman and former Scotland international

Scotland national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...

 rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player. He won 24 international caps

Cap (sport)

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 and scored one try

Try

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, playing at loose head prop, between 1977 and 1984, and captained the Scottish Grand Slam

Grand Slam (Rugby Union)

In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...

 side in the 1984 Five Nations Championship

1984 Five Nations Championship

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He is now a successful businessman, owning one of Scotland's largest grain merchants and having sold his previous company, Scotmalt, in 2003. In 2009, he donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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, becoming the second-largest donor to the Scottish branch of the party.

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