Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh
 Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh in 1965 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 January 1938 | |||||||||||
| Died | 28 January 1970 (aged 32) Chertsey, Surrey, UK | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||
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Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh (11 January 1938 – 28 January 1970) was a British schoolmaster and rower. He won a silver medal in the coxless fours event at the 1964 Summer Olympics, together with John Russell, William Barry and John James.[1]
Early life
Wardell-Yerburgh was the younger son of Geoffrey Bassett Wardell-Yerburgh, by his marriage in 1935 to Elizabeth Alis Georgina Kenyon, a daughter of G. L. T. Kenyon, a grandson of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon. He had an older brother, Oswald Kenyon Wardell-Yerburgh (born 1936).[2] They were grandsons of Oswald Wardell-Yerburgh (1858–1913).[3]
When Wardell-Yerburgh was a small boy, the family lived at Carlingford House, East Harptree, near to his grandmother, Edith Wardell-Yerburgh. On 15 February 1944, when he was six, his father died, leaving an estate valued at £27,227.[4] He was brought up by his mother, who went to live at Meadow View, Westbury, Wiltshire.[2] He was educated at Ravenscroft School, Eton College, and Bristol University, where he took a degree in aeronautical engineering.[5] For his National Service, he served for eighteen months in the Royal Artillery.[2]
Career
A successful oarsman at Eton and Bristol, in 1964 Wardell-Yerburgh rowed for Great Britain in the Coxless Fours at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, gaining a Silver medal. From 1966 to 1968, he returned to Eton as a schoolmaster.[5]
In 1968 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls (the premier singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Eton Vikings.[6] The same year, he joined Plessey as a Senior Radar Systems Analyst.[5]
Private life
In 1966 Wardell-Yerburgh married Janet (Poppy) Bewley Cathie, an Olympic fencer. They had one daughter, Atlanta Jane Kenyon Wardell-Yerburgh, born in 1969, who was educated at Worcester College, Oxford and became a chartered accountant.[5][1]
Wardell-Yerburgh died in a traffic accident in 1970, aged only 32.[3][7] He was then living at Mallards Reach, Ham Island, Old Windsor, and left an estate valued at £22,570.[8]
References
- ^ a b Maarten Kloosterman Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b c Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage (Debrett's, 1969), p. 623
- ^ a b Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh at douglashistory.co.uk, accessed 3 April 2019
- ^ "WARDELL-YERBURGH Geoffrey Basset of Carlingford House East Harptree" in Wills and Administrations 1944 (England and Wales) (1945), p. 606
- ^ a b c d Peter Yerburgh, Vol. 134, yarbroughfamily.org, p. 33
- ^ "Diamond Challenge Sculls, List of past winners". Henley Royal Regatta. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ Abilene Reporter-News. 29 January 1970. Page 29
- ^ "WARDELL-YERBURGH Hugh Arthur of Mallards Reach Ham Island Old Windsor Berks… £22570" in Wills and Administrations 1971 (England and Wales) (1972), p. 576
- 1938 births
- 1970 deaths
- British male rowers
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- People educated at Eton College
- Teachers at Eton College
- People educated at Ravenscroft School, Somerset
- People from Westbury, Wiltshire
- Road incident deaths in England
- Royal Artillery soldiers
- Military personnel from Somerset
- 20th-century British Army personnel