John Dobson (6 September 1886 – 16 July 1936) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
[3] Dobson became a director of Wylie and Lochhead Ltd; a governor of the Glasgow Academicals War Memorial Trust; a member of Merchants House; a member of the Glasgow Liberal Club; and treasurer of Kelvinside Parish Church.
[3] One of his brothers, Jimmy Dobson, was also a Scotland international rugby union player.
Another brother, Edward Dobson, died in Flanders in 1917 in the First World War.
A remaining brother William Sharp Dobson worked in the woollen business in the warehouse.
[11] The Belfast Telegraph stated that he was one of the finest forwards in the immediate pre-war years of Scottish rugby.