British Yachts and Yachtsmen – the Biographies

Was born in 1837, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Liberal member for Stafford from 1865 to 1868, for East Staffordshire from […]

Was born in 1872, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded to the title in 1872, at the death of his father. An […]

Son of the late Mr. Thomas Chamberlayne, owner of the famous Arrow, was born in 1843, and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. The family of […]

Was born in 1847, and served in the Royal Navy, the 60th Rifles, Militia Artillery and Yeomanry. He was War Correspondent up the Nile in 1889, […]

Was born in 1838, and educated at Harrow. He com­menced his yachting career as early as 1850 on his uncle’s 42-ton cutter, but there followed a […]

Was born in 1843, and educated at Eton. He entered the navy in 1857, and served through the China War, 1857-1861, on board H.M.S. Furious (Captain Sherard Osborn), […]

Was born in 1875, and educated at Harrow and Oxford. He studied for the Bar, and spent three years in the Australian gold-fields. He has been […]

Is the son of the late James Clark, a well-known yachtsman on the Clyde, where the name of Clark is a house­hold word. Few families have […]

Rear-Commodore of the Alde­burgh Yacht Club. He was born in 1857, educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and commenced yachting in 1894 with the Aldeburgh Bun. […]