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As well as being a TRC member, won the Wyfold Challenge Cup in 1950 with the Royal Engineers.

Was later a stage magician and an early performer on Baird's mechanical television.

Great Britain Boatman at the 1928 Olympics.

In the 1971 Journal the following obituary, by Jack Beresford, appeared:

"Harold E. Greenwood died in the late autumn of 1970 at the age of 90. He was affectionately known to all rowing men as ‘ The Little Moke.’ He joined Thames at the tail end of the last century soon after leaving Cranleigh School; and he appeared at Henley Regatta for the first time in 1899 as the coxswain of our Thames Cup Eight, at 7 stone 11 lbs. This crew lost to Kingston in the first round. (Incidentally 1899 was the year of my birth.)
For three more years he was the Thames Cup coxswain. In 1903 and 1904, he steered both the Grand and the Thames Cup Eights.
1905 saw Moke winning his first and only Henley medal, when our second eight lifted the Thames Cup. From 1906 to 1931 he steered the Grand Eight only. In 1910, Jesus just got home from us by 2 feet. Tyke Richardson stroked that crew with my father at bow and ‘ Duggie ’ (W. S. Douglas) in the engine room.
Moke captained the Club in 1912 — the year in which King George V and Queen Mary attended Henley Royal Regatta. Little Moke steered that year at 9 stone 6 lbs. We were beaten by Leander, who lost in the final to the Australians, but avenged their defeat at Stockholm in the Olympic Games Regatta, winning a gold medal for Great Britain.
Little Moke steered largely by intimidation—except at Henley. He was feared by coxswains of other clubs, because of his forceful personality and great flow of invective. He was adept at pushing other crews over the ‘ flats ’ at the Metropolitan Regatta. Up river he invariably succeeded in getting the best of the stream and the advantage of the bends, to the discomforture of other crews.
Rivalry with London R.C. was always intense in his day; and feelings between the two clubs ran high, even to the floor of the Stock Exchange, where our late President was a well known character.
Perhaps due to his love of horse racing, his aim when steering a boat was always to get onto the ‘rails.’ After the last war he was for a good many years Chairman of Kempton Park racecourse, and I believe not only put it onto its feet after the war, but made it one of the outstanding courses in the country.
Remenham Club has prospered through his foresight and wisdom when President. Those of us who were present will always recall his inspiring address at the opening of the new extension of that Club at Henley.
To me, Little Moke was a Thames man first and foremost, and his determination to see the Club prosper, both racing-wise and economically was paramount. In his latter years he appeared more and more to resemble a smaller version of Winston Churchill; and this applied even in delivery of the spoken word.
He was of Huguenot descent and succeeded the Earl of Radnor as Governor of the French Hospital in Rochester, remaining in that office until his death.
We all mourn his passing, but he ran his full span and led a full and varied life; he succeeded in extracting fun and enjoyment out of everything he undertook."

The 1949 Journal contains the following obituary: "J. B. GROVE was a Life Member for many years. He had served on the Committee and was an Honorary Secretary for about 10 years. Failing eyesight caused his retirement from business, when he went to live at Windlesham in Surrey after which his visits to the Club were few. We remember him at Remenham Club dinners held in the Club before the war and we think he was last at the Club at the General Meeting in March 1946. He rowed "3" at Henley in the Thames Cup crews of 1900 and 1901. He was an original member of the Remenham Club and was on the Committee at the time of his death. He once told us he had not missed a Regatta at Henley for 50 years. We last saw him in the Remenham Club during the Olympic Regatta, 1948. He was very delighted at the success of the Club, and of his old school (Bedford) at Henley in 1948."

A relative of Clement Chevallier Cream provided the additional information that Grove married one of Cream's daughters. This was confirmed via Ancestry - he married Muriel Chevallier Cream on 9 September 1911 at St Mary's, Putney.

Cannot be certain, but a strong candidate for the Mr Girley who coxed 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.

A member of London rowing club, Denis Guye competed for Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics at Amsterdam and won the Wingfield Sculls three times.

Guye was born in Brentford, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover. His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London. Guye was primarily a sculler and first competed in the Wingfield Sculls in 1927, losing to David Collet. He was selected for the 1928 Summer Olympics and partnered Humphrey Boardman in the double sculls event. They qualified for the second round repêchage but did not start in this race.

Guye lost to Collet in the Wingfield Sculls in 1928 and 1929, but beat him in 1930. He won again in 1931 and 1932, but lost in 1933 to Dick Southwood.

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