Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh

Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh

Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh in 1965
Personal information
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)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Representing  United Kingdom Summer Olympics 1964 Tokyo Coxless four

Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh (11 January 1938 – 28 January 1970) was a British 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 B. 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). They were grandsons of Oswald Wardell-Yerburgh (1858–1913).^[2]

Wardell-Yerburgh was educated at Ravenscroft School, Eton, and Bristol University, where he took a degree in aeronautical engineering.^[3]

Career[]

A successful oarsman at Eton and Bristol, in 1964 he 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.^[3]

In 1968 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta. The same year, he joined Plessey as a Senior Radar Systems Analyst.^[3]

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.^[3][1]

Wardell-Yerburgh died in a traffic accident in 1970, aged only 32.^[2][4]

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