Peter McWilliam
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 21 September 1879 | ||
| Place of birth | Inverness, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 1 October 1951 (aged 72) | ||
| Place of death | Redcar, England | ||
| Playing position | Left-half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Inverness Thistle | |||
| Newcastle United | |||
| National team | |||
| 1905–1911 | Scotland | 8 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1912–1927 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| 1927–1934 | Middlesbrough | ||
| 1938–1942 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Peter McWilliam (21 September 1879, Inverness, Scotland – 1 October 1951, Redcar, England) was a Scottish footballer who played at left-half for Inverness Thistle, Newcastle United and Scotland. He went on to manage both Tottenham Hotspur and Middlesbrough.
McWilliam was born 21 September 1879 in Argyle Street, Inverness. The fourth child of six to Peter McWilliam (1851-188?) and Jane Neish (1852–1885). His father was a grocer's porter and the family had previously moved to Inverness from Forgue, Aberdeenshire. In 1905, while a player for Newcastle United, he married Florence Woof (1885–1970), a woman from Redcar, Yorkshire. They moved to this locality shortly afterwards and had four children. McWilliam died 1 October 1951 in Redcar and is buried in the nearby Kirkleatham cemetery.
Peter McWilliam started his playing career at Inverness Thistle and remained with them for two years before starting a very successful period at Newcastle United between 1902 and 1911. He played 241 games, scoring 12 goals from the left half position. He won honours with Newcastle being part of the 1904-05, 1905–06 and 1908–09 Football League Championship sides and was an FA Cup Finalist in 1905, 1906 and 1908. In 1910 he won an FA Cup winner's medal. He was also capped eight times by the Scotland. The football world knew him as "Peter the Great"{see "Scotland's Greatest Games" by David Potter page 41}, and he was hugely popular with the Geordie fans.. His playing career came to an end following an injury sustained in an international match against Wales in March 1911.
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