Mosey van Buuren | |
Birth Name: | Mauritz Christiaan Willem Egmond van Buuren |
Birth Date: | 12 August 1865 |
Birth Place: | Burgersdorp, Cape Colony |
Death Place: | Bedfordview, South Africa |
Ru Position: | Wing |
Repteam1: | South Africa |
Repyears1: | 1891 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Ru Province1: | Transvaal |
School: | Diocesan College[1] |
Mauritz Christiaan Willem Egmond "Mosey" van Buuren (12 August 1865 – 3 October 1950) was a South African international rugby union player who played as a wing.
Born in Burgersdorp to Mauritz and Elizabeth (Harris), he attended Diocesan College in Cape Town. He married Edith van der Merwe and after her death in 1901, he married Helena Kotze. Van Buuren died in 1950, in Bedfordview, at the age of 85.[2] [3]
Van Buuren played provincial rugby for Transvaal and made his only international appearance for South Africa in their first ever Test, against Great Britain at the Crusader's Ground, Port Elizabeth.[4] [5]