# Stephen Steyn

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{{Short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
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| birth_name      = {{nowrap|Stephanus Sebastian Leonard Steyn}}
| birth_date      = {{birth date|df=y|1889|11|10}}
| birth_place     = [Moorreesburg](/source/Moorreesburg), [Cape Colony](/source/Cape_Colony)
| death_date      = {{death date and age|df=y|1917|12|8|1889|11|10}}
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| amatteam1       = [Oxford University RFC](/source/Oxford_University_RFC)
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| occupation      = Junior doctor
| school          = [Diocesan College](/source/Diocesan_College)
| university      = [University College, Oxford](/source/University_College%2C_Oxford) 
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Lt. '''Stephanus Sebastian Leonard Steyn''' (10 November 1889 – 8 December 1917) was a Scottish-South African [rugby union](/source/rugby_union) player and British Army officer who was killed in [World War I](/source/World_War_I).<ref name="touch">{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War |date=2014 |publisher=Pen and Sword |isbn=9781781590874 |pages=200–201 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMo7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA200|language=en}}</ref><ref name=Bath1>Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'', p. 109. (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 {{ISBN|1-905326-24-6}})</ref>

Steyn was born in [Moorreesburg](/source/Moorreesburg), [Cape Colony](/source/Cape_Colony) to Margaret Fraser Dobie Steyn of [Dunbar](/source/Dunbar) and physician Gabriel Hendrik Steyn,<ref>{{cite web |title=Gabriel Hendrik Steyn: 1861.06.12 - 1907.02.16 |url=https://www.steyn.pro/family/genealogy/steyn/johannes/1861-06-12.htm |website=www.steyn.pro}}</ref> who was a cousin of [Martinus Theunis Steyn](/source/Martinus_Theunis_Steyn), President of the [Orange Free State](/source/Orange_Free_State). Steyn was educated at [Diocesan College](/source/Diocesan_College), [Rondebosch](/source/Rondebosch) and [University College, Oxford](/source/University_College%2C_Oxford), where he studied medicine as a [Rhodes scholar](/source/Rhodes_scholar).<ref name="touch"/> He played for [Oxford University RFC](/source/Oxford_University_RFC) and was capped for {{nrut|Scotland}} in 1911–12.<ref name=Bath1/> He was part of the Oxford team that won a surprise victory over South Africa, reportedly owing to Steyn and fellow South African [Lennox Broster](/source/Lennox_Broster)'s knowledge of [Afrikaans](/source/Afrikaans), which helped them understood everything the rival team was saying.  He continued his medical training at [Guy's Hospital](/source/Guy's_Hospital) in London.<ref name="touch"/>

He was killed on 8 December 1917, aged 28, while serving with the [Royal Field Artillery](/source/Royal_Field_Artillery).  He is buried at the [Jerusalem War Cemetery](/source/Jerusalem_War_Cemetery).<ref>{{cwgc|name=Stephanus Sebastian Leonard Steyn|access-date=24 June 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.scotsman.com/sport/an-entire-team-wiped-out-by-the-great-war-1-768537 "An entire team wiped out by the Great War"].  ''[The Scotsman](/source/The_Scotsman)'', 6 November 2009

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Category:1889 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:Afrikaans-speaking people
Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:British military personnel killed in World War I
Category:Royal Field Artillery officers
Category:Rugby union players from Moorreesburg
Category:Scotland international rugby union players
Category:Scottish people of Dutch descent
Category:Scottish rugby union players
Category:South African people of Scottish descent
Category:South African Rhodes Scholars
Category:South African rugby union players
Category:Rugby union wings
Category:Oxford University RFC players
Category:Guy's Hospital RFC players
Category:Alumni of Diocesan College, Cape Town

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