Tony Butcher
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 June 1926 Hackney, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 August 2009 (aged 85) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Thames Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
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Anthony Sidney Fairbank Butcher (1 June 1926 – 20 August 2009) was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games and won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Biography
Butcher was educated at Cambridge University and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1947. He became a member of Thames Rowing Club. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the coxless fours.[1] Butcher recalled that at these post-war austerity Olympics, his kit was made by his mother from terry towelling.[2]
In 1949 he won the Silver Goblets at Henley, partnering Tom Christie.[3]
He represented the English team[4] at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[5] where he won the bronze medal in the eights event.[6]
Personal life
Tony Butcher was married to wife Peggy and had four children, John, Adrian, David and Marilyn. He lived for most of his life in Beaconsfield.
See also
References
- ^ Sport Reference Olympic Athletes – Tony Butcher
- ^ The Sunday Times 11 May 2008 The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948 by Janie Hampton
- ^ Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1946–2003
- ^ "Eleven Oarsmen for Empire Games". Evening News (London). 3 October 1949. Retrieved 12 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Jack Archer will fly to Games". Nottingham Journal. 7 December 1949. Retrieved 13 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
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