Peter Sime Douty (26 October 1903, in Leeds, England – 18 July 1948, in Newton Abbot, Devon) was a international rugby union player.Player profile on scrum.com. Retrieved 7 May 2010 He played at Scrum Half but could also cover Full Back.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Headingley.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19480721/109/0004
He played for Cambridge University when he went to Pembroke College.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19271213/175/0012 He often played at Full back for the Cambridge side.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19241124/212/0011
He moved to play for London Scottish.
Provincial career
He played for Scotland Possibles on 27 December 1924.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19241227/253/0005
He played for Yorkshire.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19261204/230/0013
He played for London against Hanover in 1929. He got a knee injury in the match which kept him out of rugby for a year.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000748/19290202/196/0011
International career
He played three times for ; against , and in the 1927–28 season. He suffered a gash to his head in the Wales match and had to receive medical attention before returning to the field.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19280206/134/0004
He also went on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina.
He played for the Barbarians seven times between 1925 and 1927.https://www.barbarianfc.co.uk/player/douty-peter-sime/
Family
He was a grandson of Peter Sime, of the timber merchants Bell and Sime of Dundee.https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000563/19480722/038/0004 Peter Douty's mother was the daughter of the timber merchant, Jean Martin Sime, born in 1876 from Dundee. She married Caeser Coulston Douty from Bristol.
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