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William Dudley Ward (1877 – 1946), was a British
sportsman and Liberal politician. Dudley Ward rowed
for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1897, when Oxford
won. As President of Cambridge University Boat Club
(CUBC), he rowed in the winning Cambridge crews in
the 1899 and 1900 Boat Races.
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the distance between Putney and Mortlake. His other
rowing achievements include the Grand and the
Visitors’ at Henley, and the Oxford University Sculls,
Pairs and Fours. He is the newest President of the
Oxford University Boat Club, and a typical young
barbarian of the better sort.
He is a cheerful, wholesome boy, full of pluck. He is
also stroke of much judgment and an oar who always
pulls his weight. He therefore proposes presently to get
called to the Bar. He can tell a good story with pleasing
inaccuracy, and he is often accused of unpunctuality;
yet no one dislikes him. He is inclined to be lazy outside
a boat; he can shoot, and he has been seen trying to play
golf.
He is the ruddy Secretary of Vincent’s; who is happily
called “Cherry.”
Like H.B. Cotton, his predecessor as O.U.B.C.
President, Charles Murray Pitman (1872-1948) won
four successive Boat Races. In addition to the races
listed in Vanity Fair, he rowed for New College in the
Grand (1895-96), the Stewards’ (1895), and the Silver
Goblets (1895-96).
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131. O.U.B.C [Charles Murray Pitman]
Chromolithograph
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]
Vanity Fair, 1895
Image 340 x 187 mm
unmounted
Accompanying text reads:
At Eton, once upon a time, a crew of eight Pitmans beat
an eight of Mr. Cornish’s House in a boat race. Charles
Murray is the seventh of eight brothers; who included
F.I. Pitman, the famous Light Blue stroke of 1884,
1885, and 1886, and T.T. Pitman, of the Eton Eight,
who won the Half Mile Championship. Born in
Edinburgh three-and-twenty years ago, he began to
acquire book-learning at Temple Grove, East Sheen;
whence he went to Eton, rowed and became Captain of
the Boats, sculled, played the Wall game, learned a little
more, and did other wholesome things; after which he
went to New College and stroked a first-rate Oxford
eight in his first year. A year later he rowed No. 7, and
last year he stroked another eight: an office that he is to
repeat on Saturday, when he hopes to watch eight
Cambridge galley-slaves toiling in his wake for most of
132. “O.U.B.C.” [Oliver Villiers Russell]
Lithograph
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward]
Vanity Fair, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. Lith.
March 21 1891
Image 342 x 194 mm, Sheet 375 x 234 mm
unmounted
Oliver Villiers Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, (1869 –
1935) was a British peer, rower and administrator who
served as the Governor of Madras from October 1900 to