| Birth name | Douglas Blackwell Monypenny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 28 May 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fife, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 February 1900 (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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