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Full Name: | William Joseph Stewart |
Birth Date: | 24 September 1900 |
Birth Place: | Boghill, Coleraine, Ireland |
Death Place: | Stalmine, Lancashire, England |
Occupation: | Doctor |
Position: | Fullback |
Repyears1: | 1922–29 |
Repcaps1: | 10 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
William Joseph Stewart (24 September 1900 — 1 February 1959) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Raised in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Stewart attended Coleraine Academical Institution and studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast. He was a fullback, capped 10 times for Ireland through the 1920s. His career career included a period in England, where he played for the Preston Grasshoppers and Lancashire.[1]
Stewart, a doctor, worked in British India with the Indian Medical Service from 1933 until independence in 1947, then had a general practice for a number of years in the Lancashire district of Over Wyre.[2]