Rowers at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Guy Nickalls, Frederick Septimus Kelly, Alexander McCulloch, Sir Albert Gladstone, 5th Baronet (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Chapters: Guy Nickalls, Frederick Septimus Kelly, Alexander Mcculloch, Sir Albert Gladstone, 5th Baronet, Collier Cudmore, Douglas Stuart, Oswald Carver, Eric Powell, Raymond Etherington-Smith, James Angus Gillan, Duncan Mackinnon, John Somers-Smith, Gordon Thomson, Harry Blackstaffe, Banner Johnstone, George Eric Fairbairn, Charles Burnell, Harold Kitching, Ronald Sanderson, Edward Gordon Williams, Henry Goldsmith, Gilchrist Maclagan, Harold Barker, John Burn, Henry Bucknall, John Fenning, Frank Jerwood, Joseph Wright, Richard Boyle, Philip Verdon, Polydore Veirman, Philip Filleul, Oscar de Somville, Geoffrey Taylor, Becher Gale, Gordon Balfour, Charles Riddy, Douglas Kertland, Ejnar Tonsager, Bernardus Croon, Hermannus Hofte, Albertus Wielsma, Karoly Levitzky, Frederick Toms, Norway Jackes, Johan Burk, Julius Thomson, Irvine Robertson, Bernhard Von Gaza, Walter Lewis. Excerpt: Guy Nickalls (13 November 1866 8 July 1935) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics as a member of the British eight that won gold, won 22 events at Henley Royal Regatta and won the Wingfield Sculls three times. Nickalls was born at Sutton, then in Surrey, the son of Tom Nickalls who was a jobber on the stock exchange and one of the founding members of London Rowing Club. His mother, Emily, was the first woman to climb Mont Blanc and Monta Rosa in the same week. Guy was one of twelve children, of whom his brother Vivian was also a successful oarsman. Nickalls was educated at Eton college where he was known as "Luni" due to his reckless behaviour. He played football with success, and when not engaged in athletically breaking his bones or risking his neck, he would row. At Eton he won the Junior Sculling in 1884, the School Pulling in 1885/86, and School Sculling in 1885. His ability was soon noticed and he secured...