William Roughead (rugby union)

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William Roughead
Birth nameWilliam Roughead
Date of birth(1905-09-19)19 September 1905
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death22 April 1975(1975-04-22) (aged 69)
Place of death London, England
Notable relative(s) William Roughead, father
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh Academicals ()
London Scottish ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1929 Anglo-Scots ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1927–32 Scotland 12 (0)

William Roughead (19 September 1905 – 22 April 1975) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Roughead played for Edinburgh Academicals. [2]

He also played for London Scottish. [2]

Provincial career

He played for Anglo-Scots against Provinces District on 21 December 1929. [3]

He captained the Anglo-Scots against Provinces in January 1931. [4]

International career

He played for Scotland 12 times in the period 1927 to 1932. [5]

He captained Scotland against Wales in February 1931, and it was noted that the game for the Scots was played 'under the shadow of a great loss' as former SRU President James Aikman Smith had just died. [6]

Business career

He became a literary agent. He compiled an Anthology of prose and verse by Hilaire Belloc. [7]

Family

His father William Roughead (1870-1952) was a lawyer and amateur criminologist. His mother was Janey Thomson More (1871-1940). They had 4 children: a daughter Winifred Carfrae Roughead (1901-1929), and sons John Carfrae Roughead (1902-1981), Francis More Roughead (1904-1947) and William.

His brother Francis More Roughead also played for Edinburgh Academicals.

References

  1. ↑ "William Nicol Roughead". ESPN scrum.
  2. 1 2 The Essential History of Rugby Union:Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - William Roughead - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  6. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
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