William Roughead (rugby union)

William Roughead
Birth name	William Roughead
Date of birth	19 September 1905
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death	22 April 1975 (aged 69)
Place of death	London, England
Notable relative(s)	William Roughead, father
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Hooker
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
	Edinburgh Academicals
	London Scottish
Provincial / State sides
Years	Team
1929	Anglo-Scots
National team(s)
Years	Team
1927–32	Scotland

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

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 Hillaire 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.