
Tag: Obituaries


Swedish Olympian Evert Gunnarsson Dies

A Peer Stranger Than Fiction

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

Eamonn McCabe: Three Lives Through The Lens

Duncan Clegg: Hero and Heavy

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

R.I.P. Sidney Poitier

Rowing News in Short

John Millbourn, Oarsman, Coach and Regatta Administrator, Dies

Charlie Hamlin – The Master’s Voice

Remembering Charlie Hamlin

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

Rosewell of the Times

Ted A. Nash – Bigger than Life

LAF Stokes R.I.P.

Doug Melvin: The Champion’s Champion

Italian Rower Filippo Mondelli Dies

Olympic Champion Conn Findlay Dies

RIP Louis Petrin

HRH Prince Philip

I Remember Larry Gluckman

Maurice Phelps: Chronicler of the Dynasty

Simon Crosse: London RC’s Architect Dies

Colin Porter: A Rebel with a Cause

Paul Kölliker: The Two-Metre Swiss Scribe

Chris Cramer: Newsman and Oarsman

Kathleen Heddle – Three-Time Olympic Champion Dies

Bill Windham, RIP: A Great Oarsman

The Unquiet Australian

Sam Mackenzie (1936 – 2020): Larrikin and Oarsman

David Mercer: The Perfect Gentleman

Para-Rower Dies Rowing to Honolulu

Ronnie and Shades of Blue

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

RIP Eric Verdonk 1959 – 2020

Holy Cross Rower Dies in Crash

The Elliptical Orbiter

1948 Olympic Silver Medallist Paul Bircher Dies

A Matter Of Life And Death

Writing ‘the Deads’ with a Deadline

Willits D. Ansel: A True Renaissance Man Dies

R.I.P. Max Reinelt and Phineas Sprague

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

Olympic Oarsman Douglas Turner Dies

Rainer Empacher R.I.P.

Rob van Mesdag: The Final Farewells

Martin Brandon-Bravo: The Counsel of Trent

Michael Lapage 1923 – 2018

Rob van Mesdag, Scribe and Sculler

Rob van Mesdag RIP

Roland Baar Dies

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

Stephen Hawking Dies

Soviet Two-Time Olympic Champion Yury Tyukalov Dies

David Goodes – A Coach who made Boats go Fast

NZ Olympic Legend Simon Dickie Dies

…To say nothing of the dog…

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

Jim Railton: Insight, Constructive Criticism and Coruscating Prose

Robert ‘Bob’ Day R.I.P.

Beryl Cast in Coin

Nothin’ like a Dame

Charles Eugster, the World’s Oldest Oarsman, Dies

RIP Sarah Tait

RIP Jim Pocock

Bill Stowe – American Olympic Rowing Champion Dies

The Swell of the Oceans

Richard Hylton-Smith, 1912-2015

Memories of Fifteen Magic Months

Dan the Man

Down Memorial Lanes – Davidge’s Row Through Life

New Zealand Rowing Legend Don Rowlands Dies

Christopher Guy Vere Davidge Dies

2014 – Not a Good Rowing Year!

Vale Stanley Richard Pocock
Allen Rosenberg Dies

Frank Cunningham Dies

Cross Pays Tribute to Nethercott
