Louis Stevenson

Louis Stevenson (31 January 1864 – 19 August 1931) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career Stevenson was schooled at St Peter's School in York, and the Nest Academy in Jedburgh where he studied under Dr. Fyfe, before attending Edinburgh University where he studied medicine.

The Nest Academy or the Wrens Nest was a boarding school which, according to legend, sent its pupils to bathe in the River Jed every morning before lessons.

He played rugby union for Edinburgh University.

From Edinburgh University, he moved to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he also played for the Cambridge University rugby union side.

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887.

International career

He was capped just the once for Scotland, in 1888.

Other sports

He played cricket at St Peter's School and captained their team. He wrote to the editor of the Yorkshire Gazette in 1883 when they misreported the score of the side.

Medical career

Stevenson became a doctor. He was first the house surgeon of the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. He became the Assistant doctor to a Dr. Watson's G.P. practice in Temple Sowerby; and on the elder doctor's death he inherited the practice.

Family

He was a distant relative of Robert Louis Stevenson.

He was born to James Charles Stevenson and Sarah Hirst Binns. James Charles Stevenson was a barrister at law.

His estate was valued at £5793, 4 shillings and 8 pence.