Alasdair Steele-Bodger

Alasdair Steele-Bodger, CBE, FRCVS (1 January 1924 – 17 September 2008) was a British Veterinary Surgeon.

Life

Steele-Bodger was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, the son of Harry Steele-Bodger, also a noted vet, and the elder brother of Micky Steele-Bodger, another vet and also England international rugby player. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before reading Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and qualifying as a vet at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary School, University of Edinburgh. He practised as a Veterinary Surgeon in Lichfield from 1948 until 1977 and then for two years in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.

In 1979 Steele-Bodger was appointed Professor of Veterinary Clinical Studies at the University of Cambridge, a post which he held until 1990.

Steele-Bodger was President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association in 1962, President of the British Veterinary Association in 1965-66 and President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1972-73. He was awarded the CBE in 1980.

Steele-Bodger married Anne Finlayson in 1948 and they had three daughters. He died in Monmouth on 17 September 2008.

External links

• http://www.poolhousevets.co.uk/alasdair_steele.html
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-alasdair-steelebodger-veterinary-surgeon-whose-scientific-approach-helped-take-his-profession-into-the-modern-era-1015523.html
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4862741.ece