Clive Berrange

Education

Diocesan College.

Career

He is the oldest living South African cricket captain. Van Ryneveld was also an international rugby union player. He scored three tries for England.

One against Ireland and two against Scotland.

He never represented South Africa at rugby union. Van Ryneveld had a brief career in South African politics.

Two years later, in 1959, Van Ryneveld and eleven other MPs broke from the United Party to form the Progressive Party, which adopted a much more aggressive opposition to apartheid. The party"s platform was ahead of its time, and in the 1961 general election all of the Progressive MPs except one, Helen Suzman, lost their seats.

Thereafter Van Ryneveld practised law.

Their three children, Mark, Philip and Tessa live in South Africa. He published 20th Century All-rounder: Reminiscences and Reflections of Clive van Ryneveld in 2011.

Achievements

• He represented Oxford University Reconstruction Finance Corporation in The Varsity Match in 1947, 1948 and 1949 and won four caps as a centre for the England national rugby union team, playing in all four matches of the 1949 Five Nations Championship.

Membership

In 1957 he was elected to Parliament as a member of the United Party, then the main opposition to the governing National Party which had introduced apartheid to South Africa.