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.

He was the younger son of Geoffrey Basset Wardell-Yerburgh, by his marriage in 1935 to Elizabeth Alis Georgina Kenyon, daughter of G. L. T. Kenyon, a grandson of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, and had an older brother, Oswald Kenyon (born 1936). They were grandsons of Oswald Wardell-Yerburgh (1858–1913). He was educated at Ravenscroft School (Somerset).

In 1968 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta.

Wardell-Yerburgh died in a traffic accident at the age of 32. He was the husband of Janet Wardell-Yerburgh.