John Jarvis

John Arthur Jarvis, known as Jack, was an English competitive swimmer born in Leicester on 24 February 1872, who died on 9 May 1933 after representing Great Britain in three Olympic Games and becoming a well-known amateur athlete of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the 1900 Games in Paris he won two gold medals, in the 1000 metre and the 4000 metre freestyle, and he won a third gold in the water polo tournament. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in 1968. Olympedia records that between 1897 and 1906 he won 24 Amateur Swimming Association titles for Leicester Swimming Club, and that he played water polo for England and Great Britain for 11 years, from 1894 to 1904.