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Tag: Obituaries

Nov 5, 2025Nov 4, 2025HTBS

John Campbell Broadhurst – A Champion for Youth Rowing

Sep 10, 2025Sep 11, 2025HTBS

Farewell Chas: The Last Of The Old Putney Watermen

Jun 3, 2025Jun 3, 2025HTBS

Emeritus Bishop Mark Jabalé Dies

May 7, 2025May 7, 2025HTBS

Olympic Champion Giuseppe Moioli Dies

May 1, 2025Apr 30, 2025HTBS

Michael “Mungo” Meehan Dies

Mar 3, 2025Mar 3, 2025HTBS

Chuck Alm, Member of Legendary ’58 Husky Eight, Dies

Jan 24, 2025Jan 25, 2025HTBS

U.S. Olympic Sculler Bill Belden Dies

Jan 13, 2025Jan 13, 2025HTBS

Olympic Oarsman Roger Lebranchu Dies Age 102

Dec 30, 2024Dec 31, 2024HTBS

Penny Chuter: A Champion Coach Who Poled Punts, Shoved Skiffs and Sculled Shells

Dec 11, 2024Dec 10, 2024HTBS

Remembering Penny

Oct 18, 2024Oct 17, 2024HTBS

Goodbye Bert

Sep 2, 2024Sep 5, 2024HTBS

Remembering Tom

Aug 29, 2024Aug 29, 2024HTBS

Swedish Olympian Gösta Eriksson Dies

Aug 5, 2024Aug 25, 2024HTBS

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov 1938 – 2024

Jun 24, 2024Jun 24, 2024HTBS

Angus Robertson – The Upholder of ‘Regatta Standard’

May 28, 2024Jun 7, 2024HTBS

Clive Of The Lea

May 27, 2024May 27, 2024HTBS

R.I.P. Clive Radley

Jan 25, 2024Jan 24, 2024HTBS

Thames RC’s Pauline Rayner MBE Dies

Dec 28, 2023Dec 27, 2023HTBS

Notable Deaths of 2023

Dec 14, 2023Dec 18, 2023HTBS

Remembering Peter-Michael Kolbe

Nov 25, 2023Nov 25, 2023HTBS

Olympic Champion John Sayre Dies

Nov 11, 2023Nov 11, 2023HTBS

Olympic Oarsman Roel Luijnenburg Dies

Oct 23, 2023Oct 22, 2023HTBS

Rowing’s Maverick Global Coach

Oct 17, 2023Oct 16, 2023HTBS

Olympic Champion Ed Ferry Dies

Sep 14, 2023Sep 14, 2023HTBS

Olympian Andy Larkin Dies

Sep 12, 2023Sep 12, 2023HTBS

Olympian Nancy Hitchcock Storrs Dies

Jul 21, 2023Jul 20, 2023HTBS

Derek Malcolm: Infamous Cox, Famous Critic

Apr 26, 2023Apr 26, 2023HTBS

Peter Spurrier – The Dean of Rowing Imagery

Mar 19, 2023Mar 18, 2023HTBS

Cuba’s Most Successful Rower, Ángel Fournier Rodriguez, Dies

Feb 10, 2023Feb 10, 2023HTBS

Swedish Olympian Evert Gunnarsson Dies

Jan 18, 2023Jan 18, 2023HTBS

A Peer Stranger Than Fiction

Dec 2, 2022Dec 1, 2022HTBS

Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part I

Oct 9, 2022Oct 11, 2022HTBS

Eamonn McCabe: Three Lives Through The Lens

Jul 28, 2022Jul 27, 2022HTBS

Duncan Clegg: Hero and Heavy

Feb 21, 2022Jun 24, 2022HTBS

Duvall Hecht: Olympic Oarsman, Pilot, Coach, Entrepreneur, Truck Driver Dies

Jan 10, 2022Jan 12, 2022HTBS

R.I.P. Sidney Poitier

Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021HTBS

Rowing News in Short

Nov 9, 2021Nov 8, 2021HTBS

John Millbourn, Oarsman, Coach and Regatta Administrator, Dies

Oct 22, 2021Oct 22, 2021HTBS

Charlie Hamlin – The Master’s Voice

Oct 22, 2021Oct 22, 2021HTBS

Remembering Charlie Hamlin

Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021HTBS

Adrian Stokes: Oxford Blue, Henley Winner and a Typical Wykhamist

Aug 12, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Rosewell of the Times

Jul 8, 2021Jul 7, 2021HTBS

Ted A. Nash – Bigger than Life

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021HTBS

LAF Stokes R.I.P.

May 12, 2021May 11, 2021HTBS

Doug Melvin: The Champion’s Champion

May 1, 2021Jul 31, 2024HTBS

Italian Rower Filippo Mondelli Dies

Apr 19, 2021May 13, 2021HTBS

Olympic Champion Conn Findlay Dies

Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021HTBS

RIP Louis Petrin

Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021HTBS

HRH Prince Philip

Mar 31, 2021Apr 1, 2021HTBS

I Remember Larry Gluckman

Mar 9, 2021Mar 8, 2021HTBS

Maurice Phelps: Chronicler of the Dynasty 

Feb 1, 2021Jan 31, 2021HTBS

Simon Crosse: London RC’s Architect Dies

Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021HTBS

Colin Porter: A Rebel with a Cause

Jan 25, 2021Jan 24, 2021HTBS

Paul Kölliker: The Two-Metre Swiss Scribe

Jan 22, 2021Jan 21, 2021HTBS

Chris Cramer: Newsman and Oarsman

Jan 15, 2021Jan 14, 2021HTBS

Kathleen Heddle – Three-Time Olympic Champion Dies

Jan 14, 2021Jan 20, 2021HTBS

Bill Windham, RIP: A Great Oarsman

Nov 9, 2020Nov 9, 2020HTBS

The Unquiet Australian

Nov 6, 2020Nov 7, 2020HTBS

Sam Mackenzie (1936 – 2020): Larrikin and Oarsman

Sep 2, 2020Sep 1, 2020HTBS

David Mercer: The Perfect Gentleman

Jun 25, 2020Jun 27, 2020HTBS

Para-Rower Dies Rowing to Honolulu

Apr 10, 2020Apr 11, 2020HTBS

Ronnie and Shades of Blue

Apr 9, 2020Apr 9, 2020HTBS

John Hall-Craggs, 1931 – 2020: A quiet man who got things done

Apr 4, 2020Apr 3, 2020HTBS

RIP Eric Verdonk 1959 – 2020

Jan 15, 2020Jan 15, 2020HTBS

Holy Cross Rower Dies in Crash

Nov 29, 2019Nov 29, 2019HTBS

The Elliptical Orbiter 

Oct 24, 2019Oct 29, 2019HTBS

1948 Olympic Silver Medallist Paul Bircher Dies

Aug 28, 2019Aug 27, 2019HTBS

A Matter Of Life And Death

Aug 26, 2019Aug 25, 2019HTBS

Writing ‘the Deads’ with a Deadline

May 6, 2019Jun 16, 2019HTBS

Willits D. Ansel: A True Renaissance Man Dies

Feb 12, 2019Feb 14, 2019HTBS

R.I.P. Max Reinelt and Phineas Sprague

Feb 5, 2019Feb 4, 2019HTBS

John Shore, a Good Bloke (and an exceptional photographer)

Nov 10, 2018Nov 9, 2018HTBS

Olympic Oarsman Douglas Turner Dies

Oct 27, 2018Oct 26, 2018HTBS

Rainer Empacher R.I.P.

Oct 4, 2018Oct 4, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag: The Final Farewells

Aug 30, 2018Aug 28, 2018HTBS

Martin Brandon-Bravo: The Counsel of Trent

Aug 4, 2018Aug 4, 2018HTBS

Michael Lapage 1923 – 2018

Jul 27, 2018Jul 26, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag, Scribe and Sculler

Jul 25, 2018Jul 24, 2018HTBS

Rob van Mesdag RIP

Jun 26, 2018Jun 26, 2018HTBS

Roland Baar Dies

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