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unusual facts about Wingfield Sculls


Lancaster John O' Gaunt Rowing Club

Former members of the club include, two-time winner of the Wingfield Sculls, Doug Melvin.


1830 in sports

10 August — the Wingfield Sculls, amateur championship of the River Thames, is founded at the instigation of barrister Henry Colsell Wingfield and raced from Battersea to Hammersmith.

Benjamin Hunting Howell

Benjamin Hunting Howell (born September 3, 1875) was an American rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta and the Wingfield Sculls in 1898 and 1899.

William Fawcus

William Fawcus (born 10 October 1850) was a British rower who won the Wingfield Sculls and the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1871, being the first provincial competitor to do so.


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Albert de Lande Long

He retained the Wingfield Sculls in 1870, but came third in the Diamond Challenge Sculls that year.

Benjamin Hunting Howell

He challenged in the Wingfield Sculls in 1897 but lost to Harry Blackstaffe.

Charles Vincent Fox

In 1899 he entered the Wingfield Sculls but lost to B H Howell.

Frederick I. Pitman

Cambridge lost the Boat Race in 1885 and in the same year Pitman challenged in the Diamond Challenge Sculls and the Wingfield Sculls but was beaten in both by the holder W. S. Unwin.

John Laurence Tann

His grandson Tim Crooks was an Olympic rower who also won the Wingfield Sculls.