Micky Steele-Bodger

Who is Micky Steele-Bodger?

Michael Roland "Micky" Steele-Bodger CBE is a former English rugby union footballer who played flanker for Harlequins, England and the Barbarians, and is currently the President of the Barbarian Football Club and President of the East India Club, London.

His father Harry Steele-Bodger was a noted veterinarian. He was educated at Rugby School, and Cambridge University, and played for Cambridge in The Varsity Match in 1945 and 1946. On graduation he studied at Edinburgh and he represented the Edinburgh University club for two full seasons. Steele-Bodger followed his father by becoming a veterinarian, as did his elder brother Alasdair Steele-Bodger who was also of the Edinburgh University club.

He gained 9 caps for England, playing in all 4 matches in the 1946-47 season and all 5 matches in the 1947-48 season. 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. An anterior cruciate ligament injury ended his playing career however in 1949.