They had five children:[3] In 1910, Samuel Strang Steel stood, unsuccessfully, as the Liberal Unionist candidate for Peebles and Selkirk in the two general elections that year.

During the war he was appointed Deputy Controller of the Home Grown Timber Production Department responsible for its activities in Scotland.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir (Fiennes) William Strang Steel (1912-1992) as 2nd Baronet.

Sir William was educated at Eton College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served in the 17th/21st Lancers during WW2.

He married, on 7 August 1941, Joan only daughter of Brigadier-General Sir Brodie Henderson KCMG, CB, who died 1992.