Douglas Monypenny
Scotland international rugby union player
Rugby player
Birth name | Douglas Blackwell Monypenny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1878-05-28)28 May 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fife, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 February 1900(1900-02-22) (aged 21) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Paardeberg, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Charlton Monypenny, brother | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Blackwell Monypenny (28 May 1878 – 22 February 1900, in Paardeberg[1]) was a Scottish international rugby player,
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for London Scottish FC.[2]
Provincial career
Monypenny played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.
International career
He was capped three times for Scotland in the 1899 Home Nations Championship, scoring a try in the game against Wales.[1][2]
Death
Monypenny was killed in the Second Boer War, and is the only Scottish rugby internationalist known to have died in either conflict.[2] He was twenty one at the time.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 20 February 2010
- ^ a b c Bath, p109
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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