John Douglas (born 18 December 1934, Woolwich) was a Scottish international rugby player. He was educated at

Stewart's Melville College Stewart's Melville College (SMC) is an independent day and boarding school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Classes are all boys in the 1st to 5th years and co-educational in Sixth (final) year. It has a roll of about 750 pupils. The school is twinned w ...

in Edinburgh and first played rugby for the school XV. During his National Service he played for the B.A.O.R and when back in civilian life played for Blackheath. He returned to Scotland and played for Stewart's Melville Former Pupils RFC and Edinburgh before his first cap for Scotland in 1961. He was capped twelve times as No 8 for Scotland between 1961 and 1963. He took part in the

1962 British Lions tour to South Africa In 1962 the British Lions rugby union team toured Southern and Eastern Africa. Overall the tourists played twenty-five matches, winning sixteen, losing five and drawing four. The Lions were unsuccessful in the test series against , losing by ...

, although not selected for any test appearances, and also for the Barbarians tours of 1961 and 1965. He was a successful Rugby Sevens player. In later life he became a racehorse owner. His horse

Rubstic Rubstic (1969-1995) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing. Rubstic was owned by the former Scottish international rugby player John Douglas. He became the first Scottish-trained horse to win the Grand ...

won the

1979 Grand National The 1979 Grand National (officially known as the Colt Car Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 133rd renewal of the Grand National horse race, which took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 31 March 1979. The race was won ...

. His elder son Struan Douglas is a Scottish Rugby League international and his younger son

Nigel Douglas Nigel Grant Douglas (born September 1970) is a Scottish entrepreneur and the founder and former CEO of Global Surface Intelligence Ltd Before going into business Nigel played sport at a high level. He is a black belt at judo and played rugby u ...

played rugby for Scottish School boys, premier rugby for Dundee HSRFP and district rugby for

North and Midlands North and Midlands - and now known as Caledonia - is a select provincial amateur rugby union team that draws its players mainly from north of Scotland, roughly corresponding from around Stirling northwards. Historically the North and Midlands te ...

References

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1934 births Living people British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland People educated at Stewart's Melville College Rugby union players from Woolwich Scotland international rugby union players Scottish racehorse owners and breeders Rugby union fullbacks Blackheath F.C. players {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-stub