Brief profile of D.Q.Steel by Don Ambrose

Player:

STEEL, Douglas Quentin.
Amateur.
Born at West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, 19th June 1856.
Died at Upton, Wirral, Cheshire, 2nd December 1933.
The son of Joseph Steel, of Liverpool, Lancashire, a shipowner, he was educated at Uppingham School, where he was a member of the cricket eleven 1871-75, being captain 1874-75 and of the rugby fifteen 1873-74. He went up to Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, and was a member of the University cricket eleven 1876-79, winning his blue in all four years. He was also a member of the University rugby fifteen in 1877 and of the association football eleven 1877-78. He made his debut for Lancashire in 1876 and played in 57 first-class matches, including 22 for Lancashire. His three brothers A.G., E.E. and H.B. all played for Lancashire, and his nephew A.I. for Middlesex. He gained his B.A. in 1879 and from 1881-95 was a solicitor in Liverpool. He then became a general commission agent in Liverpool, living in 1905 at Sandbrook Cottage, Moreton, Wirral, Cheshire. He later moved to Upton.
There is no sign of him in the 1881 Census but his family are living at 2 South Hill Grove, Toxteth, Liverpool. His widowed mother Margaret, aged 51 born in Scotland, is a landowner and annuitant, and her two unmarried sons Arthur J., aged 27, a shipowner naval seaman, Harold B., aged 18, a Cambridge undergraduate. Miss Jane Andrew, aged 45 born in Scotland, is a visitor. There is a butler and five other domestic servants.