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Tag: Obituaries

2 weeks ago 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, 2021Apr 30, 2021HTBS

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

Mar 14, 2018Mar 17, 2018HTBS

Stephen Hawking: Remembering the cox ‘with his head in the stars’

Mar 14, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Stephen Hawking Dies

Feb 20, 2018Feb 21, 2018HTBS

Soviet Two-Time Olympic Champion Yury Tyukalov Dies

Jan 20, 2018Nov 14, 2021HTBS

David Goodes – A Coach who made Boats go Fast

Dec 15, 2017Dec 15, 2017HTBS

NZ Olympic Legend Simon Dickie Dies

Nov 24, 2017Nov 24, 2017HTBS

…To say nothing of the dog…

Nov 8, 2017Nov 8, 2017HTBS

Lew Cuyler (1933-2017): Newspaper Man, Rower, Author

Aug 23, 2017Aug 25, 2019HTBS

Jim Railton: Insight, Constructive Criticism and Coruscating Prose

Aug 8, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

Robert ‘Bob’ Day R.I.P.

Jul 18, 2017Aug 25, 2019HTBS

Beryl Cast in Coin

May 30, 2017May 30, 2017HTBS

Nothin’ like a Dame

May 10, 2017May 9, 2017HTBS

Charles Eugster, the World’s Oldest Oarsman, Dies

Mar 4, 2016Mar 3, 2016HTBS

RIP Sarah Tait

Feb 28, 2016Feb 29, 2016HTBS

RIP Jim Pocock

Feb 11, 2016Feb 11, 2016HTBS

Bill Stowe – American Olympic Rowing Champion Dies

Jan 31, 2016Jan 31, 2016HTBS

The Swell of the Oceans

Jan 1, 2016Dec 31, 2015HTBS

Richard Hylton-Smith, 1912-2015

Sep 2, 2015Sep 1, 2015HTBS

Memories of Fifteen Magic Months

Jul 1, 2015Jul 1, 2015HTBS

Dan the Man

Mar 21, 2015Mar 20, 2015HTBS

Down Memorial Lanes – Davidge’s Row Through Life

Mar 19, 2015Mar 19, 2015HTBS

New Zealand Rowing Legend Don Rowlands Dies

Dec 27, 2014Dec 27, 2014HTBS

Christopher Guy Vere Davidge Dies

Dec 22, 2014Mar 23, 2019HTBS

2014 – Not a Good Rowing Year!

Dec 17, 2014Dec 17, 2014HTBS

Vale Stanley Richard Pocock

Dec 14, 2013Dec 14, 2013Ellen

Allen Rosenberg Dies

Mar 6, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Frank Cunningham Dies

Jan 29, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Cross Pays Tribute to Nethercott

Jan 27, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Acer Nethercott – GB Olympic Cox Dies Age 35

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