Geoffrey Taylor (rower)


Geoffrey Barron Taylor (February 4, 1890 – April 25, 1915) was a Canadian rower from Toronto who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Olympic medal record
Men's rowing
Bronze medal – third place1908 London Coxless four
Bronze medal – third place1908 London Eight

As a member of Toronto's Argonaut Rowing Club, he was stroke of the 1907 Junior four and eight at 17 years of age. That year, at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, he made history winning the Junior, Intermediate, and Senior fours as well as the Junior and Senior Eights. In all, five Henley wins in one day - a feat that has never been equaled over 100 years later.[1] He was stroke of the Canadian boat which won the bronze medal in the coxless four in 1908, when he also stroked the Canadian eight which won the bronze medal behind Leander Club (gold) and Belgium (silver).


Taylor was a student at Trinity College, Oxford University when World War I began. He left his studies and was commissioned into the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada), CEF, on the unit's arrival in England in February 1915 with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and fell in action with it as a lieutenant on April 24, 1915 aged 25 at the 2nd Battle of Ypres. His body was not recovered from the field, and his name is engraved on the gateway for the missing of the Ypres Salient at Menin.[2][3]

See also

References
  1. Jason. (1911). Historical sketch of the Argonaut Rowing Club, 1872 to 1911. Scott Printers Limited. p. 33. OCLC 1007739679.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  2. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on November 7, 2014. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  3. "Casualty Details: Taylor, Geoffrey Barron". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved March 3, 2018.


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