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3 unusual facts about Edmond Warre


A. A. Casamajor

In 1858, Casamajor won the Diamond Challenge sculls with a row over and won Silver Goblets with Playford when they beat Edmond Warre and Arthur Lonsdale in the final in 1858.

Edmond Warre

He was educated at Eton, where he was an exact contemporary of Algernon Charles Swinburne, and then at Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished university career, taking a double first (1856 and 1859).

Warre

Edmond Warre (1837–1920), English rower and head master of Eton College


Balliol College Boat Club

Famous Balliol oarsmen have included Lord Justice Chitty, Edmond Warre (Head Master of Eton), Frederick Septimus Kelly (composer, killed in France 1916: considered one of the greatest oarsmen of all time having won at least one event at Henley Royal Regatta each year from 1902-1906 and Olympic gold in 1908), Cardinal Heard, Dan Snow (3 time 'Blue' and 2001 OUBC president), HM King Olav V of Norway and HM King Harald V of Norway.


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