Allan Ivo Steel

Allan Ivo Steel (1892–1917) was an English cricketer.

Allan Steel was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, the son of the Lancashire cricketer A. G. Steel. He attended Eton College, and played in Fowler's match in 1910.

As a right-handed batsman and a right-arm slow bowler, he represented MCC and also Middlesex in two first-class matches in 1912.

He served as a lieutenant of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards regiment of the British Army and was killed on active service during World War I, aged 25. His name is on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 9 to 10.

His brother was John "Jack" Steel, who served in the Royal Navy. A Lieutenant he was washed overboard, in heavy seas, en route to take on the command of H.M.S Munster on 18 April 1918. He drowned. His memorial is at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Their mother was Georgina Dorothy, née Thomas, (17 May 1864 – 6 October 1943); she descended from the family who included Commander William George Henry Skyring (born c. 1797) who was on the HMS Beagle surveying South America, and who surveying the west coast of Africa was murdered on Cape Roxo on 23 December 1833.