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The 1896 British Isles tour to South Africa was a rugby union tour undertaken by the British Isles, one of the first British and Irish Lions tours. The team toured South Africa for the second time in 1896. Between 11 July and 5 September, they played 21 games, including four tests against South Africa. The British Isles XV won the Test series 3–1 and completed the 17-game provincial program unbeaten, scoring 204 points and conceding just 45 in all matches.
Springboks - Home squad
- James Henry Anderson
- John Benjamin Andrew
- Ferdinand Thomas Drake Aston
- Allan Menzies Beswick
- Michael John Bredenkamp
- Henry Arthur Cloete
- David Gill Cope
- William Alfred Henry Cotty
- James Huskisson Crosby
- Paul Johannes De Waal
- Charles Edwin Devenish
- George St Leger Devenish
- Pieter Joseph Dormehl
- Francis Wingfield Douglass
- Thomas Edmund Etlinger
- Hamish Hood Forbes
- Henry Corbett Gorton
- Frank Edward Huntington Guthrie
- Barry Heatlie Heatlie
- Tom Brown Hepburn
- Percy Sydney Twentyman Jones
- Edward William Kelly
- Arthur Larard
- Dominic Joseph Lyons
- Thomas Brown Mellet
- Philip John Meyer
- Francis Rudolph Myburgh
- Ernest Olver
- Albert William Powell
- John Mercer Powell
- Theodore Alexander Samuels
- Paul Alexander Scott
- Christie William Smith
- Walter Stringfellow Taberer
- Daniel Johannes Theunissen
- Herman Dirk Van Broekhuizen
- Charles Gerhard Van Renen
- Johannes Jacobus Wessels