Robert Bourne (Politician)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Croft Bourne (15 July 1888 7 August 1938) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1924 to 1938. Bourne was born at Bodington, London the son Gilbert Charles Bourne who had rowed in the winning Oxford crews in the Boat Race of 1882 and 1883. As a child, Bourne lost the sight of one eye in a game of rounders at school. He was educated at Eton College where he won the School Sculling in 1906, and then at New College, Oxford. At Oxford, he stroked the winning…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Croft Bourne (15 July 1888 7 August 1938) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1924 to 1938. Bourne was born at Bodington, London the son Gilbert Charles Bourne who had rowed in the winning Oxford crews in the Boat Race of 1882 and 1883. As a child, Bourne lost the sight of one eye in a game of rounders at school. He was educated at Eton College where he won the School Sculling in 1906, and then at New College, Oxford. At Oxford, he stroked the winning Oxford boats in the Boat Race in 1909, 1910, 1911 and 1912, being president in the last two years. He also won the University Sculls in 1910 and the University Fours in 1911 and went head of the river in 1911-12. He was the strokeman of the New College eight which won the silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the winning crew in the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1912, 1913 and 1914.