Peter Douty

Last updated

Peter Douty
Birth namePeter Sime Douty
Date of birth(1903-10-26)26 October 1903
Place of birth Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Date of death18 July 1948(1948-07-18) (aged 44)
Place of death Newton Abbot, Devon, England
School Sedbergh School
University Pembroke College, Cambridge
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Headingley ()
1924 Cambridge University ()
- London Scottish ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1924 Scotland Possibles ()
1926 Yorkshire ()
1929 London ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1925-27 Barbarians 7
1927-28 Scotland 3
1927 British and Irish Lions

Peter Sime Douty (26 October 1903, in Leeds, England – 18 July 1948, in Newton Abbot, Devon) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1] He played at Scrum Half but could also cover Full Back.

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Headingley. [2]

He played for Cambridge University when he went to Pembroke College. [3] He often played at Full back for the Cambridge side. [4]

He moved to play for London Scottish. [3]

Provincial career

He played for Scotland Possibles on 27 December 1924. [5]

He played for Yorkshire. [6]

He played for London against Hanover in 1929. He got a knee injury in the match which kept him out of rugby for a year. [7]

International career

He played three times for Scotland; against Wales, Australia and France in the 1927–28 season. [1] He suffered a gash to his head in the Wales match and had to receive medical attention before returning to the field. [8]

He also went on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina.

He played for the Barbarians seven times between 1925 and 1927. [9]

Family

He was a grandson of Peter Sime, of the timber merchants Bell and Sime of Dundee. [10] Peter Douty's mother was the daughter of the timber merchant, Jean Martin Sime, born in 1876 from Dundee. She married Caeser Coulston Douty from Bristol.

References