Douglas Monypenny
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Scotland international rugby union player
Rugby player
| Birth name | Douglas Blackwell Monypenny | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1878年05月28日)28 May 1878 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fife, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 February 1900(1900年02月22日) (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
[edit ]Amateur career
[edit ]He played for London Scottish FC.[2]
Provincial career
[edit ]Monypenny played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.
International career
[edit ]He was capped three times for Scotland in the 1899 Home Nations Championship, scoring a try in the game against Wales.[1] [2]
Death
[edit ]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
[edit ]- 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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