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An early member of Thames and co-founder of Thames Hare & Hounds. Rye was legal partner of W H Eyre, and Rye & Eyre of Golden Square conducted much of the club's legal business.

Rye later became a well-known antiquary, particularly with regard to the history of Norfolk.

Known as Ayton Safford.

Born in 1859 in Tring, Hertfordshire.

A solicitor.

Educated at Emanuel School, London; Emmanuel Coll., Cambridge (MA).

Joined Bank of England, 1949; Adviser, Foreign Exchange, 1965; Deputy Chief Cashier, 1975; Chief Adviser, 1979; Assistant Director, Foreign Exchange Division, 1980–82.

Exco International: Deputy Chairman, 1983–84; Chairman, 1984–86;

Chairman, London Forfaiting Co. Ltd, 1984–86

Married 1952, Mary Louise Fitz-Alan Stuart; two sons.

Educated at Dulwich College; Heidelberg; Chelsea School of Art; London School of Economics; University College, Oxford. Arden Scholar of Gray’s Inn and Holker (Senior) Scholar, 1929; Law Coach, 1928–30; Bar Studentship and Certificate of Honour, for 1st place in Bar Final exam, also special prize in Examination for Barstow Scholarship, 1930.

called to Bar, 1931; Lecturer Mercantile and Shipping Law, City of London College, 1932; Practised Commercial and Common Law Bar, London and Midland Circuit; Counsel to RIBA and Building Trades Fedn, also to Trade Delegn of USSR, 1935–39; Bencher of Gray’s Inn, 1954. Served War of 1939–45, in RNVR (Special Br.): SO (Intelligence) and Naval Liaison Officer FOIC Harwich, 1940–41; personal staff of DNI, 1941–43; Mem., Post Hostilities Planning Staff, Chiefs of Staff, 1943–44; Comdr, 1943. Temp. Legal Adviser to Chm., BOAC, 1944–45. MP (Lab) for Widnes (Lancs), 1945–50; Chm., all-party Parly Cttee for Channel Tunnel, Sec., all-party Group for European Union, 1947–49; Member Executive, British Council of European Movement; Mem. Brit. Delegation, Hague Conf., 1948. KC, 1949; QC, 1952. Retired from politics, 1950. Recorder of Nottingham, 1950–61; founded Chair of Law, London Univ. (with Sir Frederick Handley Page), 1954; Chm., Internat. Space Law Cttee, 1959; retired from practice at Bar, 1961; joined S. Eastern Circuit, 1969. Former Chm., various cos in insurance, catering, property development, finance; Dir., Channel Tunnel Co. Travelled Europe (incl. USSR), Canada, USA, Africa and Far East.

As well as rowing, he played Rugby for Blackheath and boxed at Belsize Club.

Jack Shearman was the son of Montague Shearman (who had won the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley) and Mary (nee Catty), the sister of early Thames members Frederick and James Catty.

While a teenager, he coxed the winning Wyfold Challenge Cup crews of 1870 and 1871. His brother, another Montague, later rowed for Thames.

Montague Shearman was a founding member of London Rowing Club. He married Mary Catty, sister of early Thames members Frederick and James Catty. His sons John and Montague respectively rowed and coxed at Thames.

Montague Shearman, nicknamed 'Tont', was the younger brother of Jack Shearman who had coxed for Thames. Montague rowed for Thames in the Thames Challenge Cup crew of 1882. His main sporting interest was not rowing but athletics and he came the President of the Amateur Athletic Association in 1915.

He became a King's Counsel in 1903 and then a Judge of the King’s Bench Division from 1914–29

Cannot be certain, but a strong candidate for the Mr Shepherd who rowed in a City of London Rowing Club pair on 3 October 1860. On the night of the 1861 Census he was a warehouseman, living in a company dormitory in Dyers Court, off Aldermanbury.

Globe Rowing Club

Born in Cork to Alvara Lofthouse Slater and Charlotte Augusta Millicent Daunt.
Died in Kingsbridge, Devon.