About Joe Stewart
Joe Stewart was a rugby union player.
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 included a period in England, where he played for the Preston Grasshoppers and Lancashire.
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.
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Joe Stewart died on 1 February 1959.
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Joe Stewart was a rugby union player.
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