W. B. Young


William Brewitt Young was born in Ardrossan and was a Scottish and East African rugby football player.
He was capped ten times for between 1937–48 and three times for East Africa between 1949-50. Along with Maurice Daly of he is one of only two people to have been capped by a major rugby playing nation and by East Africa.
Along with W.C.W. Murdoch, he was one of only two Scottish players to be capped on either side of World War II, giving him one of the longest international careers on record. John "Jack" Heaton and Thomas Arthur "Tommy" Kemp also achieved this feat for.

Personal life

Young was the son of Alexander Robert Young and Christina Leiper. He attended City of London School and studied medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. and became a doctor after he finished playing rugby.