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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.