Henry "Harry" born in 1888, and David, his elder brother by six years, were both professional footballers entirely in Scotland, the former either side of The Great War, the latter before the conflict. In fact the siblings were to take the field together with not one but two clubs, Hibernian between 1910 and 1912 and briefly during the war at Third Lanark. 

David was mainly an inside-forward and something of a slow-burner. At already twenty-seven in October 1909 he is recorded in a side-ways move within the Second Division as a late addition from Ayr Utd. to Dumbarton, where he was then an almost ever-present. It then earned him a step up to First Division Hibernian where in three seasons before moving, aged now over thirty and once more sideways, to The Thirds there were sixty-nine League starts and fifteen goals.