Peter Douty

Peter Sime Douty (26 October 1903, in Leeds, England – 18 July 1948, in Newton Abbot, Devon) was a international rugby union player. He played at Scrum Half but could also cover Full Back.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Headingley.

He played for Cambridge University when he went to Pembroke College. He often played at Full back for the Cambridge side.

He moved to play for London Scottish.

He played for Yorkshire.

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.

International career

He played three times for ; against , and in the 1927–28 season.

He also went on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina.

He played for the Barbarians seven times between 1925 and 1927.

Family

He was a grandson of Peter Sime, of the timber merchants Bell and Sime of Dundee. 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.