| William Roughead | |
| Birth Name: | William Roughead |
| Birth Date: | 19 September 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Ru Position: | Hooker |
| Amatteam1: | Edinburgh Academicals |
| Amatteam2: | London Scottish |
| Ru Provinceyears1: | 1929 |
| Ru Province1: | Anglo-Scots |
| Repteam1: | Scotland |
| Repyears1: | 1927–32 |
| Repcaps1: | 12 |
| Reppoints1: | 0 |
| Relatives: | William Roughead, father |
William Roughead (19 September 1905 – 22 April 1975) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Roughead played for Edinburgh Academicals.[2]
He also played for London Scottish.[2]
He played for Anglo-Scots against Provinces District on 21 December 1929.[3]
He captained the Anglo-Scots against Provinces in January 1931.[4]
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]
He became a literary agent. He compiled an Anthology of prose and verse by Hilaire Belloc.[7]
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.