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Richard Boyle (rowing)

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|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Bronze medal – third place|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1908 London || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | Eight Richard Frederick Robert Pochin Boyle (11 October 1888 – 6 February 1953) was a British coxswain who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]

Boyle was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, the son of Major Charles John Boyle and Lillian Kennedy Pochin.[2] Boyle was educated at Cambridge University and coxed the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race in 1907 and 1908. The Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[3]

In the First World War, Boyle was a captain in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and was wounded.

Boyle married Marion Elisa Hill Wallace, daughter of Major-General Hill Wallace, on 12 February 1918

See also[]

  • List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews

References[]

  1. ↑ "Richard Boyle". Olympedia. https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/37229. 
  2. ↑ the Peerage.com
  3. ↑ Sports Reference Olympic Sports – Richard Boyle
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