Richard Beesly

Richard Beesly was a British rower who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Born at Bromsgrove on 27 July 1907, he was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rowed for First Trinity Boat Club. He rowed at number four for the winning Cambridge crew in the Boat Race in 1927 and 1928, and in 1928 First Trinity represented Great Britain at the Amsterdam Olympics, where he won gold in the coxless four with John Lander, Michael Warriner and Edward Bevan. He was president of the Cambridge University Boat Club in 1929. He later worked in industry and farmed at Ashford Hall in Shropshire, where he was killed by a bull in 1965.