Cambridge University Boat Club Rowers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Hugh Laurie, Stanley Muttlebury, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, George Selwyn, Kieran West, William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, William Henry Waddington, Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, Tom James, Steve Fairbairn, Charles Merivale, Warington Wilkinson Smyth, John Lecky, Alistair Potts, Francis Penrose, Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe, John Selwyn, Brian Harrison, Thorsten Engelmann, Adrian Cadbury, James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave. Excerpt: Stanley Duff Muttlebury (29 April 1866 - 3 May 1933) was an English rower notable in the annals of rowing and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Muttlebury was born 29 April 1866 in London, England, the only child of James William Muttlebury, and his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Stanley Duff (born in Madras, British India; died in 1915, aged 80), daughter of Major Duff, 37th Regiment, Madras Native Infantry (The Grenadiers). He was baptised according the rites of the Church of England on 4 September 1866 in Holy Trinity, Paddington, London, England. His father, who was by profession a barrister, was trained in Toronto and called to the Bar of Upper Canada as a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He practised in Toronto, Canada West (now Ontario), but by 1851 returned to his birthplace Walcot, Bath, Somerset, and by 1856 migrated to the antipodes where he was a solicitor in St Kilda's, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. There he made his fortune, becoming a director of the National Bank of Australasia. He returned to England by 1862, for he was married in Kew that year, and the subject was born in London four years later. Financially able to retire, he lived the life of an annuitant gentleman, dying in Geneva, Switzerland in 1886, when Muttlebury was a freshman Cambridge undergraduate. Muttlebury's paternal grandfather was Dr James Muttlebury (1773-1832), M.D., F.R....