Douglas Monypenny | |
Birth Name: | Douglas Blackwell Monypenny |
Birth Date: | 28 May 1878 |
Birth Place: | Fife, Scotland |
Death Place: | Paardeberg, South Africa |
Ru Position: | centre |
Amatteam1: | London Scottish F.C. |
Ru Provinceyears1: | - |
Repyears1: | 1899 |
Repcaps1: | 3 |
Reppoints1: | 3 |
Douglas Blackwell Monypenny (28 May 1878 – 22 February 1900, in Paardeberg[1]) was a Scottish international rugby player,
He played for London Scottish FC.
Monypenny played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.
He was capped three times for in the 1899 Home Nations Championship, scoring a try in the game against .[1]
Monypenny was killed in the Second Boer War, and is the only Scottish rugby internationalist known to have died in either conflict.[2] He was twenty one at the time.[1]