Douglas Monypenny

Douglas Blackwell Monypenny (28 May 1878 – 22 February 1900) was a Scottish international rugby player,

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for London Scottish FC.

Provincial career

Monypenny played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.

International career

He was capped three times for in the 1899 Home Nations Championship, scoring a try in the game against .

Death

Monypenny was killed in the Second Boer War, and is the only Scottish rugby internationalist known to have died in either conflict. He was twenty one at the time.

References

• Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 )
• Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; )