20th Century All-rounder: Reminiscences and Reflections of Clive van Ryneveld

by JohnWoodcock (Foreword), Clive Van Ryneveld (Author)

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  Clive van Ryneveld was born in Cape Town and attended school at Diocesan College (Bishops) where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. At Oxford he read law and received blues for rugby and cricket, captaining the University XI in 1949. In that year he also played rugby for England in the Five Nations. After graduating from Oxford he was chosen for Dudley Nourse's team which toured England in 1951. He made his top test score of 83 runs at Headingley in a partnership of 198 runs with Eric Rowan. In 1952 he was admitted to the Cape Bar and in that year his rugby playing days came to an end when he dislocated his hip playing for Villagers against Stellenbosch. Clive played in three further home series against visiting cricket teams: New Zealand in 1953/4, Peter May's MCC side in 1956/7 and Ian Craig's Australian side in 1957/8. An injury to Jackie McGlew in 1956 resulted in Clive captaining South Africa for the rest of the 1956/7 series and the series against Australia. He captained Western Province when they won the Currie Cup competition in 1955/6.In 1957 Clive was elected a United Party MP for East London North and in 1959 was one of twelve MPs who formed the Progressive Party under the leadership of Dr Jan Steytler. He lost his seat in the general election of 1961, when Helen Suzman was the only Progressive Party survivor. Clive joined Hill Samuel Merchant Bank SA in 1969 and worked for the bank until retirement in 1988. For some years he served as director and was also a non-executive director of Mercantile and General Reinsurance Company of SA. He is an honorary life member of the MCC and a vice-president of the Western Province Cricket Club. Clive and his wife Verity were married in 1957 and have three children, Mark, Philip and Tessa.