Richard Boyle (rowing)
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1908 London | Men's eights |
Richard Frederick Robert Pochin Boyle (11 October 1888 – 6 February 1953) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Boyle was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, the son of Major Charles John Boyle and Lillian Kennedy Pochin.[1] Boyle was educated at Cambridge University and coxed the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race in 1907 and 1908. The Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[2]
In the First World War, Boyle was a captain in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and was wounded.
Boyle married Marion Elisa Hill Wallace, daughter of Major-General Hill Wallace, on 12 February 1918
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