William Roughead (19 September 1905 – 22 April 1975) was a

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international

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player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Roughead played for

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.The Essential History of Rugby Union:Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003. He also played for London Scottish.

Provincial career

He played for

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against Provinces District on 21 December 1929. He captained the Anglo-Scots against Provinces in January 1931.

International career

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

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had just died.

Business career

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

Family

His father

William Roughead William Roughead (pronounced ''Ruff-head'') (1870–1952) was a well-known Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on "matters criminous". He was an important early practitioner of the modern "true crime" ...

(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

References

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