Full name | William Rory Andrews Watherston | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 5 March 1933 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Ford, Midlothian, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
School | Sherborne School | ||||||||||||||||
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William Rory Andrews Watherston (5 March 1933) is a Scottish former international rugby union player. [1]
Born in Ford, Midlothian, Watherston is the son of a farmer and attended Sherborne School. [2]
Watherston, a wing-forward, played for Edinburgh Wanderers and London Scottish. [3] He won his Scotland call up from the latter, gaining three caps during the 1963 Five Nations, and was also captain of Middlesex. [4]
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