W. B. Young

William Brewitt Young (7 May 1916 - 25 April 2013)   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 (born c1885 Govan, Lanarkshire Scotland) and Christina Leiper (born c1883 Lanark, Lanarkshire). He attended City of London School and studied medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.  and became a doctor after he finished playing rugby.

References
 Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 )
 Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 )
 Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; )

Category:1916 births
Category:2013 deaths
Category:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Category:Scottish rugby union players
Category:Scotland international rugby union players
Category:People educated at the City of London School
Category:People from Ardrossan