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Back row: Robertson, Cream, Labat, Hastie
Middle row: Howell, Eyre, Slater
Front row: Safford, Gordon
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Back row, left to right: Arthur Hutchinson, Steve Fairbairn, JW Fogg Elliot, HS Soden
Front row, left to right: H Osborne, AB Falconer, Frederick Fairbairn, James Drake Smith, CW Hughes
The Nord Deutsch Horn, still owned by the club, is visible on the left of the picture.
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Standing (left to right): A B Falconer, Arthur Hutchinson, ?, B W Looker
Seated on chairs: F E C Clark, James Drake-Smith, J W Fogg Elliott
Seated on ground: Ayton Safford, ?
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Standing (left to right): Arthur Hutchinson, A B Falconer, ?
Seated: James Drake-Smith, B W Looker, Ayton Safford, F E C Clark, ?, ?
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Standing: Arthur Hutchinson
Seated: B W Looker, F E C Clark, C W Hughes
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Standing: Monier-Williams, Thomson, Harrison, Huxley, Trewby
Seated in chairs: Irwin, Sprague, Forster, Heath, Hallett
Seated on ground: Greenwood
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ACME operated from 1923 to 1951, under the auspices of Newspaper Enterprise Association. Earlier it was known as United Newspictures. It was bought out by United Press in December 1951. Corbis has some of the images in its collection, while some are held by the New York Public Library.
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Back row: E R Johnson, Arthur Sulley, Bob Starkey, George Beaumont, Archie Nisbet, Edward Bevan, A V Martin, L G Potter, Harold Ives.
Fourth row: J Beale, Terence O'Brien, Michael Warriner, Denis Guye, Humphrey Boardman, R Beaumont (coach)
Third row: David Collet, Bill Killick, John Lander, Felix Badcock
Second row: Donald Gollan, Harold West, Gully Nickalls, Jamie Hamilton, Richard Beesly, Laurie Beedell (boatman)
Front row: C Green (boatman), Harold Lane, Jack Beresford, William Dudley Ward (coach), Julius Beresford (coach), Charles Morrell (team manager), D Williams (masseur)
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Back row: William Woodward, Robert Collins, Bert Bushnell, Tom Christie, William Leckie, Alfred Mellows, D C H Garrod, P Bradley, Howard Bakie James, Christopher Barton, Alf Twinn, D G Jamison.
Middle row: I M Lang, Tony Butcher, Mark Bodley Scott, Tony Purssell, Charles Lloyd, Ernest Bircher, Michael Lapage, Hank Rushmere, Paul Massey, David Meyrick, Jack Wilson, Ran Laurie, Dick Phelps.
Front row: Jack Beresford, Freddie Page, Richard Burnell, Harold Rickett, Guy Richardson, Ewart Horsfall, Peter Kirkpatrick, Ronnie Symonds, Tony Rowe, Alexander McCulloch, Jack Dearlove.
Seated front: John Healey, David Walker, spare cox.
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The Captain (R C Morris) presents the Mayor of Ostende with a Thames blade, after the prize-giving ceremony at the Town Hall.
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Chris Dodd wrote this obituary in the Guardian:
"Geoffrey Page, who has died aged 72, was the last survivor of a small band of rowing correspondents who were heavies in every sense of the word.
When I began writing on the subject for the Guardian in the 1970s, I was apprenticed to the Sunday Telegraph's Page, the Daily Telegraph's Desmond Hill and the Sunday Times' Richard Burnell, eccentric fanatics who were masters of the stopwatch, judges of fine blade-work, thorns in the side of selectors, and barstool coaches par excellence. They were also a discerning panel on wines, beers and firewaters of the world, and could Hoover a buffet like no one else. Their arguments were radical, and they seldom agreed about anything.
Hill and Burnell died some years ago, leaving only Geoffrey, who started with the Sunday Telegraph in 1967 and moved to the daily in 1984. His surname was unnecessary for recognition purposes on regatta courses from the Tideway to Tasmania.
Brought up in Barnes, south-west London, his early life was spent in a house with a tower, and views of a large segment of the Boat Race course. He was marinated in rowing at St Paul's school, where his father was a brilliant languages teacher who coached rowing before becoming secretary of the Amateur Rowing Association. Geoffrey rowed for London University while studying art at the Slade, and throughout his life mixed art, pottery, graphology, poetry, travel writing and family life with rowing.
Early rowing correspondents came from a school in which the rating watch ruled, and the prose was usually in the language of insiders. They were critics, not interviewers or profile writers, and Geoffrey always remained close to this approach. He seldom quoted rowers or coaches, recording their progress instead on multi-coloured charts in his neat handwriting, and latterly on an ancient laptop, an encyclopaedic back-up to his prodigious memory for names and results. He could pontificate to an infuriating pitch, but was also sharply outspoken when at odds with officials, and was learned and entertaining company away from the crowd.
A t Henley, he occupied poll position in the press box, with his glasses trained on the umpires' launches as he castigated them for bad steering. At Lucerne regatta, he stayed in the same room at the Hotel des Alpes each year, sipping large gin and tonics on his balcony overlooking the old town and the Pickwick, the rowers' favourite watering hole.
The height of his rowing career was a gold medal in England's eight, and a bronze in the coxed four at the 1954 Commonwealth Games. He sat in many of the Thames Rowing Club's crews and became captain, taught in Canada, and coached University College, Dublin, to win the Ladies' Plate in 1974, ending a famine of Irish Henley medals which had lasted since 1902. He chaired the Amateur Rowing Association's technical committee, and was a selector during the 1960s. He also wrote a sumptuous history of the Thames Rowing Club and co-authored the history of Leander Club with his friend Richard Burnell.
He was a harsh critic of the Olympic games but, at Sydney 2000, he relished the performance of the British crews, and failed to find fault with the facilities.
In his younger days as a teacher of art and pottery at University College School, Geoffrey and his wife Paddy, also a painter, would tour Europe in an ancient Volks- wagen camper van. They would often appear at the world championships with a barrel of plonk on board, the proceeds sometimes of a Geoffrey impressionist painting on the corniche at Cannes.
During the last year, a portfolio of ailments slowed him down. While in hospital last month, he was elected president of the Thames Rowing Club; he was also president of the British Association of Rowing Journalists, whose emblem of crossed pen and oar in a camera body he designed, though he was too large a man to get into even the groups' XXL polo shirt.
He had seen 57 Boat Races, most of them from the press launch as official timekeeper since 1969. He listened to last Saturday's race in his hospital bed, while the week of shenanigans at Putney was bereft of his part in the black arts of spotting a weak oarsman, picking a winner and arguing with editors about the number of words."
Rachel Quarrell wrote this for The Independent:
"A more passionate supporter of the sport of rowing could not be found than Geoffrey Page – lifelong oarsman, coach and rowing journalist. Although he could not make what would have been his 58th Boat Race attendance, he followed every stroke of last Saturday's thrilling contest on the radio from his hospital bed, and had been planning to watch the video when allowed home.
Born in Barnes, Surrey, in 1929, Geoffrey Page was destined to grow up on the river. His father, Freddie Page, five times captain of Thames Rowing Club, signed his son up as a cadet member of the Putney club at the tender age of six weeks. The young Geoffrey began his own rowing two miles upriver at St Paul's School, where his father taught, and was made captain of the school boat club for his last two years.
Moving to study art at the Slade in 1948, the enthusiastic Page was shocked to find a lethargic boat club at University College London. His mutterings about the "lack of spirit" ensured that he was elected captain of the club in his second term at college. Enlisting the help of several distinguished coaches, he set about reviving the club's fortunes, and in 1949 co-founded the London University representative boat club, gaining his Purple by rowing in the first UL crew to be formed.
In 1953 Page graduated to row at Thames, winning the Head of the River on his début for the club, followed by trophies at most of the major regattas. His own international aspirations brought him two medals at the 1954 Empire Games, although he rowed several times at Henley Royal Regatta without ever winning one of the coveted medals. He continued to coach, both at Chiswick Grammar School and at UL as well as Thames, and wrote his first book, Coaching for Rowing, in 1963. Page was proud to be appointed national coach and selector for the 1964 and 1968 Olympics, and continued his own participation, captaining Thames RC four times between 1959 and 1969, and elected President of the club early in 2002.
Nineteen sixty-five saw the beginning of Page's journalistic career, as first The Sunday Telegraph and then The Daily Telegraph appointed him their rowing correspondent. His acute coach's eye for technique and talent for description brought him a global reputation as a writer, and he soon established his favourite viewing spots at all the great rowing events. Journalism and rowing only clashed once, when, as part of the Oxford coaching team for the 1987 "mutiny" Boat Race, he felt obliged to step down from his involvement with the crews when he realised he was going to have to write about their problems in the national press.
The Boat Race continued to be his passion, and he wrote with an even-handed severity about both Oxford and Cambridge when they failed to live up to his high standards, although his heart remained firmly Dark Blue in private. One of the official timekeepers for the race, he had a grandstand view from the press launch for nearly 40 years, and would have loved to have been at last Saturday's epic battle.
Rowing at all levels continued to attract Page, even though in recent years age and health problems made it difficult for him to climb the steps of regatta viewing stands. Summoning the energy to attend the Sydney Olympics, he watched Steve Redgrave win his fifth gold, and provided the expert analysis last summer as Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell won two gold medals in a day at the Lucerne World Championships. He never forgot the youngsters, however, and took particular care to encourage those just beginning on their international careers, rewarding success with approving comments in his Telegraph articles.
Page's early artistic leanings continued throughout his life, and he always described himself as a potter, although he also sketched and painted, producing several excellent portraits of rowing figures amongst his opus. He was a published poet, and became an accomplished graphologist, using his eye for detail to analyse the handwriting of those unwary enough to put pen to paper. As an archivist he wrote histories of Thames, UCL and Leander rowing clubs, the last co-authored with Richard Burnell.
As President of the British Association of Rowing Journalists, Page chaired the annual BARJ meetings, held in the press box over the river on the last day of Henley Royal Regatta, with laconic wit. He always managed to draw the meeting to a close in time for the first final of the regatta, ever aware of the real business of the day. This year's regatta will not be the same without Geoffrey Page, telescope to his eye, judiciously pronouncing the winner before the two crews are more than halfway up the course.
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Found tucked into 1949-1951 album but date suggests this photograph does not originate with the album.
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A TRC eight in training on the Henley course, alongside another crew. The photograph was uncaptioned in the album in which it was found but the oarsman at bow bears a strong resemblance to Tim Wilson, suggesting that the crew is the 1949 Thames Cup eight. This is not, however, absolutely confirmed.
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Bow: Ronald 'Sparrow' Morris
2: Unknown
3: Murray Fox
Str: K A 'Bill' Williams
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Ramsay Murray
Ward
Barton?
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Junior Senior fours, heat A: Thames RC win from London RC
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The identification of this crew as the 1926 Thames Cup VIII is not absolutely certain but the members of the crew appear to correlate with other photos of that year's crew.
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In the 1971 Journal, the following obituary, by K A Williams, appeared:
"‘ Sparrow ’ Morris was so well known to so many of us and so well liked in the rowing world that his loss will be felt severely. He came to Marlow Regatta in June and we looked forward to having him with us at Henley; but he died suddenly on the Monday morning after Marlow just before setting out to work.
He came to Imperial College about 1930 and took to rowing so happily that he rowed in the ICBC eight that raced in the final of the Thames Cup at Henley in 1932, losing to London R.C. by only four feet. Two years later he won the Thames Cup in the last Thames R.C. boat to do so—a crew that raced that year in near record times, and one whose members have been in the forefront of the Club ever since.
Sparrow went on to row in the Grand and Stewards. As a steersman of coxless fours and pairs he was perhaps unequalled in his day. After the war he rowed very successfully with Alan Burrough, losing the Goblets by only six feet to Pinches and Sturges. The pair represented the country at the European Championships at Macon. In 1948 he was bow in the Thames R.C. crew that won the Grand at Henley in a most convincing manner. Whatever the official records may say about that crew, it is a fact that in the middle of the final it rowed two whole minutes, one at 24 strokes in a minute and a second at 23½, with their opponents trailing well behind at about 38. Even today this crew can pass as a model of the best in English rowing; and, indeed, its approach to rowing and its style have formed the basis of many very successful crews since. Sparrow went on to prove himself an extremely good coach and his help was appreciated wherever it was sought. He was Captain of Thames R.C. for two years in the middle 1950s and latterly a Vice-President. He must have been one of the three most successful coaches of Imperial College; and Portora Royal School would be the first to praise what he did for them.
His experience of international rowing was not confined to the pair-oar already mentioned. He coached the English eight, provided by Thames R.C., at Ghent in 1955; and though this proved an uphill job, he brought his usual happy outlook to things. Indeed, it is this happy approach to life that we shall remember him for chiefly. Apart from rowing his main interest lay in motorcars and motoring. He was the safest—and perhaps the fastest— driver I have known; and I think he was as happy in a car as in a boat. But then, a superb bow & steers ought to be."
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TRC VIII bringing their boat ashore. Unclear whether this is a regatta or head.
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The caption to this photograph in the Thames Journal 1993 reads 'Peter Kirkpatrick caught in conversation with a member of the 1952 Sydney Grand eight as Gordon Dear and David de Pinna look on.
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A note by Tim Wilson on the reverse identifies the subjects as: Watts, Thoday, Chandler, Bradley, Bunge, Minor, Price and Lordie.
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Pollitt
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Amies
P Morris
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1954 TRC 9th VIII
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Willison
Berry
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Quarrier
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Harrison
Cooke
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Ramsay Murray
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B Tim Levy
2 Jim Macartney
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6 John Pritchard
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S Gordon Sandifer
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3 Graham Bagnall
4 Stephen Wise
6 Paul Budd
7 Jim Macartney
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Zucker
Bagshaw
Russell
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S Tudor Hopkins?
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4 Gary Spice
5 Hugh Chamberlin
6 Keith Pattinson
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Pinna
Ramsay Murray
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Back row: Joe Prewett, Dave Phillips, Jon Longridge, Gavin Maguire, Nick Heathcote, Ali Leighton-Crawford, Federico Ucci, Bryan Hoffman, Peter Land, Ben Prior, Philip Longstaff, Ollie Watkins, Oli Gill.
Second row: Simon Granshaw, Laurence Wells, Charlie Fisher, Tom Edwards-Moss, Ben Turner, Andy Green, Andrew Wilkins, Jules Bury, Roger Hirst, Rory Maxwell, Martin Kelly, Mark Thompson.
Front row: Neil Grennan-Heaven, Ollie Raisbeck, Caroline Stripp, Ruth Kelly, Paddy Ryan, Richard Greenhous, Stephen Dooley, Hannah Watkins, Katherine Baker, Iain Pritchard.
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Baker
Bray
Allen
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Williams
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Cook
Fankhauser (sp?)
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A pool of a number of photographic agencies. Their rubber stamp reads:
Copyright Olympic World Photo Pool
International News Photos
Keystone Press Agency Ltd
Planet News Ltd
The Associated Press Ltd
CC Higgs
34 Fleet Street
London EC
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George V and Queen Mary are rowed down the Henley course in the Royal Barge, by a crew of watermen. An associated note by Tim Wilson records that Dick Phelps identified stroke as Ernie Barry and 3 as Clasper (though unclear which of that family).
Presented to TRC by Brian Havelock Potts, August 1975
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Presented to TRC by Bristol Ariel President Lawrence (Lawrie) Fraser, 1979.
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George Parlby receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia, for services to rowing, from Air Marshal SIr James Rowland.
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John Levy was born in Brazil, at Morro Velho, near Belo Horizonte. He contracted polio when he was 18 months old, and immediately afterwards his mother brought him back to her family home of Cornwall, settling in Chapel Porth; and later moving to Tattenham Corner. Levy went to Ewell Castle school, and studied chemistry, botany and geology at Imperial College from 1939 to 1942, where also coxed for Imperial College Boat Club. As a student his dream was to emulate Douglas Bader, the RAF pilot who flew after losing his legs. Levy had his withered left leg amputated and a false leg fitted. He would take the false leg off while coxing - sometimes leading to allegations of cheating by reducing his weight.
His first research project involved growing and studying tomatoes, a fruit which Levy couldn't abide, but he was soon diverted from his PhD studies in plant pathology (leaving his thesis unfinished) to lecture civil engineering students on timber and its properties in construction. He then spent 15 years teaching about timber and decay, establishing close cooperation with the Forest Products Research Laboratory.
His department was involved with others at Imperial in 1976 when the late Professor Alastair Cameron, of the lubrication laboratory, built an experimental, and highly successful, wooden racing four on the monocoque principle used in airframe construction. It won races at Henley powered by an Imperial crew, and prompted carbon fibre to be introduced into boat building by British Aerospace, which made an eight for the Olympic team. Monocoque construction became universal as wood bowed out as the favoured material for racing craft.
Levy was made a doctor of science and became professor of wood science in 1981. Initially encouraged by the British Wood Preservation Association, he started his research at Imperial's mine at Tywarnhale in Cornwall and at its field station at Silwood Park. This early work led to the establishment of a research group of worldwide renown, and it remains as his legacy. He also worked on the preservation of the hull of Mary Rose, and he studied the bows of the ship's archers, working out that the men must have been above average height to fire the deadly weapon.
He remained a rowing stalwart for his whole life as cox and then captain of Thames Rowing Club, Imperial's neighbour in Putney. Levy's presence in Imperial boats was keenly heard during the war when several college eights used the Thames regularly, often caught in air raids when they had to decide whether to run for shelter under a bridge or put distance between themselves and what may have been the Luftwaffe's prime target.
He served as president of both boat clubs and of Kingston regatta, and celebrated his birthday this year at Henley. Levy brought the same qualities of his professional life to his rowing activities, captaining Thames Rowing Club at the time when its committee outmanoeuvred its backwoodsmen to admit women as members. He was always quietly persuasive, never showing temper or raising his voice except when in the back of a boat.
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Back row: Andy Tayler, Jonathan Knight, Tudor Hopkins, Jim Macartney
Front row: Paul Budd, Jerry Armstrong, Bill Needham, Martin Levy, Steve Jones
On ground: Tim Levy.
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Back row: Stephen Dooley, Richard Greenhous, Lawrence Sandral, Eoghan Hannigan, Benedict Flynn, Mark Evans, Iain Pritchard.
Front row: Alex Brooks, Raf Carbonell, James Silk.
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Kneeling: Caroline Burbridge.
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Kneeling: Anna Caffyn, Olivia Cook, Deb Mallinson, Lucy Smith, Helen Ratcliff, Graham Alwin, Gavin Maguire.
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Joined TRC in 1999.
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1 Mark Faure-Walker
2 Paddy Ryan
3 James Silk
4 Helen Day
5 Anna Smee
6 Emma James
7 Jack Wilshaw
8 Andrew Wilkins
9 Andrew Foster
10 Chris Staden
11 Andy Bowles
12 Richard Hartman?
13 Steve Chester
14 Mark Evans
15 Piers Robinson
16 Iain Pritchard
17 Justin Roberts
18 Will Pressley
19 Holger Westphely
20 Lesley Baguley
21 Jacquie Barnes
22 Neil Grennan-Heaven
23 Leonie Barron
24 James Elder
25 Michael Casfikis
26 Jo Ganley
27 Pam Dixon
28 Charlotte Dalton
29 Elizabeth Banyard-Smith
30 Michelle Ovens
31 Chris Swan
32 James Renwick
33 Raymond Blair
34 James Prentice
35 Jonathan Lye
36 Ryan [Surname unknown]
37 Richard Harriss
38 Rebecca Goodrum
39 Caylie Jeffery
40 Charlotte Howard-Jones
41 Alice Lester
42 Farne Conway
43 Dave Baldwin
44 Pauline Rayner
45 Andrew Macfarlane
46 Stephen Dooley
47 Emma Channing
48 Birgitta Kramer
49 Ruth Kelly
50 Seana Haughey?
51Caroline Pryce
52 Kathrin Dethleffsen
53 Beverley Hicks
54 Dave Thomson
55 Richard Greenhous
56 Simon Gillett
57 Benedict Flynn
58 Pete Wilson
59 Gemma Williams
60 Jane Brockway
61 Caroline Baker
62 Karen Macdonald
63 Bridget O'Connell
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65 Liz Mason
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This is 3 out of 4 of the 1955 Wyfold four, but it is not Hugh Denning at 2. Tony Bingham thinks it is most probably Stuart Miskin.
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The photo is signed H Paul. Two brothers, Henry Paul and Hugh Paul, both insurance brokers living with their parents in Putney at the time of the 1871 Census, appear to have been members. Impossible to tell which the photograph depicts in the absence of additional evidence.
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This could be a misidentification. The signature on the back of the photograph is hard to decipher, but Francis Nickinson is a good fit given his date of election.
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The photograph is unlabelled but appears to bear a strong resemblance to other photos of George Vize, this one depicting him in slightly later life.
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May be a misidentification, but the photograph is signed 'T B King' and Thomas Bellamy King seems the best fit.
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Possibly Karl Vernon at bow.
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Not certain that this is von Opel, but it does resemble the other photo of him that we hold.
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