Micky Steele-Bodger

Michael Roland Steele-Bodger CBE MRCVS (4 September 1925 – 9 May 2019)[1] was an English veterinary surgeon and rugby union footballer who played flanker for Harlequins, England and Barbarians, and was President of the Barbarian Football Club and President of the East India Club, London.

He was educated at Rugby School, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and at the University of Edinburgh where he read Veterinary Studies.

In his final international, against France in March 1948, Steele-Bodger had to move to scrum-half when Richard Madge left the field, despite suffering from concussion himself.

In 1948, he inaugurated the annual tradition of bringing a guest Steele-Bodger XV to play Cambridge University as a warm-up to the Varsity Match.

Steele-Bodger was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours "for services to Rugby Union Football.