E.g. Williams, President c.u.b.c. : Vintage Rowing Print
G. Whitehead & Sons, 1910.
Original chromolithograph by Spy, printed in the Supplement to The World, 22 March 1910. Image size c.35cm x 21cm. In very good condition, short closed tear to one edge, repaired with tape to the verso.
Edward Gordon Williams (20 July 1888 12 August 1915) rowed for Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. With the Cambridge eight he won the Boat Race in 1908, crewed for the eight in the 1908 Summer Olympics, where his boat won the bronze medal, was in the Boat Race again in 1909, partnered Banner Johnstone to win the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta in 1909. and was President of C.U.B.C. in 1910. He then served in the First World War as a lieutenant with the Grenadier Guards and was killed in action, aged 27, near Béthune in 1915.
From 1911, in addition to having his lithographs printed in Vanity Fair, SPY (Leslie Ward), also had some printed in The World magazine, a leading society paper.
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