William David Doherty
| Full name | William David Doherty | ||||||||||||
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| Nickname | George Doherty | ||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 17 July 1893 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Wandsworth, England | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 31 March 1966 (aged 72) | ||||||||||||
| School | Dulwich College | ||||||||||||
| University | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Surgeon | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Lock | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1913 1919-1922 1921 |
Cambridge University County Surrey |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1920-1921 | Ireland | 7 | |
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William David Doherty, M.A., M.Ch., F.R.C.S., known as George Doherty was a medical superintendent of Guy's Hospital, London, and a former captain of the Ireland national rugby union team.
William David Doherty was born on 17 July 1893, in south London. He attended Dulwich College where he played rugby and for three years represented his school at the Public Schools boxing championships. He proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, to study medicine. Having broken his education to serve in the first world war, he graduated B.A. in 1917. He immediately entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the Conjoint diploma in 1920.
By the time George Doherty entered Guy's his reputation as a rugby forward was already well established. Whilst at Dulwich College he played in an unbeaten first XV in 1909 which contained five future internationals dubbed the 'Famous Five'. These five would all go on to play in the 1913 Varsity match, (and also produced the captains of both Oxford and Cambridge in 1919), and all served in the First World War. They were Eric Loudoun-Shand and Grahame Donald who both went on to play for Scotland, Doherty himself who went on to play for and captain Ireland, Jenny Greenwood who went on to play for and captain England and the record-breaking Cyril Lowe.
From Dulwich College, Doherty went to Cambridge University. He was selected for the 1913 varsity match. On his team were two of his former school team mates, CN Lowe and JE Greenwood, on the opposing side were Eric Loudoun-Shand and Graham Donald also from Dulwich. After the first world war Doherty was selected to play for Ireland. In addition, at Cambridge he was also awarded a half-Blue for water polo.
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