Cyril Dugmore

Cyril Patrick William Francis Radclyffe Dugmore (20 May 1882 – 22 January 1966) was a British Army officer and track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Dugmore was born in Birr and died on Guernsey.[1][2] He was a grandson of William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux, and a brother of artist-author Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.[3]

Cyril P. W. F. R. Dugmore

He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 16 August 1902,[4] and was stationed in South Africa.[5] He fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War.[1]

In 1908 he finished eleventh in the triple jump event.

He was married to New York socialite Lilla Gilbert (nee Brokaw), the widow of H. Bramhall Gilbert, in January 1914.[6][7] They divorced in 1923.[8]

References
  1. "Cyril Dugmore". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  2. Earl of Reading (1918). Who's Who in the British War Mission in the United States of America, 1918. New York: Edward J. Clode. p. 30.
  3. Hesilrige, Arthur G. M., ed. (1916). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. London: Dean & Son, Ltd. p. 138.
  4. "No. 27465". The London Gazette. 15 August 1902. p. 5334.
  5. Hart′s Army list, 1903
  6. "Mrs. Gilbert, Bride of Capt. Dugmore; Widow of H. Bramhall Gilbert Married to British Army Officer at Her Home". The New York Times. 20 January 1914. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  7. "Mrs. Lilla Gilbert becomes bride of English officer". The Evening World. 19 January 1914. p. 1.
  8. "Mrs. Cyril Dugmore secures divorce in English courts". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 24 April 1923 – via Brooklyn Public Library.


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