# The Rowers of Vanity Fair

This book provides an annotated set of caricatures from the British weekly Vanity Fair (1868 - 1914), who were featured as rowers or who had a connection with rowing though featured on some other basis. They are listed chronologically by their rowing years, not by the date they happened to appear in Vanity Fair. As noted in the Introduction, the initial set by Wiki author Wat Bradford are of fifty-nine men who rowed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race or at the Henley regatta, or appeared mainly in connection with rowing, but Wiki contributors are welcome to add others who have a rowing connection (such as Thomas Brock); please just be clear what it is.

## Contents

* Introduction
* Editors, Authors, and Artists of Vanity Fair

### 1839 - 1854: New Traditions

* Northcote, Stafford Henry (Earl of Iddesleigh) - "He Does His Duty to His Party, and Is Fortunate if It Happens to Be His Duty to His Country" - Ape - October 8, 1870 - The 1836 Eton v. Westminster Boat Race
* Brett, William Baliol (Lord Esher) - "Popular Judgment" - Ape - January 1, 1876 - The 1838 Cambridge v. Leander Boat Race
* Boscawen, Evelyn (Viscount Falmouth) - "Never Bets" - Spy - September 1, 1877 - Gambling and Aquatic Nobbling
* Denman, George - "He Was an Ornament on the Bench" - Stuff - November 19, 1892 - The 1841 Boat Race
* Waddington, William Henry - "France at the Congress" - T. - September 28, 1878 - The Thames Conservancy
* De Rutzen, Albert - "A Model Magistrate" - WAG - August 16, 1900
* Hornby, John James (Provost of Eton) - "The Head" - Spy - January 31, 1901 - The War of the Ribbons
* Chitty, Joseph William - "The Umpire" - Spy - March 28, 1885 - The Four Secrets of Chitty's Success
* Peel, Arthur Wellesley (Viscount Peel) - "The Speaker" - Spy - July 2, 1887 - Brutal Athletes and Effeminate Fops
* Macnaghten, Edward - "He Succeeded Lord Blackburn" - Spy - October 31, 1895 - Sporting Judges

### 1855 - 1871: Dr. Warre and Fixed-Seat Orthodoxy

* Warre, Edmond - "The Head" - Spy - June 20, 1885 - On the Grammar of Rowing
* Smith, Archibald Levin - "3rd Commissioner" - Spy - November 3, 1888 - The 1859 Boat Race: Cambridge Sinks, Smith Too
* Channell, Arthur Moseley - "An Amiable Judge" - Spy - February 17, 1898 - How to Choose an Oarsman
* Carter, John Corrie - “Steered Three Winning Crews” - WH - July 3, 1912 - "My Garments Expansion Require"
* Lawes, Charles Bennett - “Athlete and Sculptor” - Verheyden -May 12, 1883 - Belt v Lawes
* Dilke, Charles Wentworth - “A Far Advanced Radical” - Coïdé - November 25, 1871 - Crawford v. Crawford
* Brassey, Albert - “The Master of the Heythrop” - Spy - March 15, 1906 - Blazers
* Rasch, Frederic Carne - “South-East Essex” - Spy - April 2, 1896 - The 1869 Oxford v. Harvard Boat Race
* Smith, Ernest John Heriz - “Pembroke” - Hay - January 28, 1888 - Sporting Heads of Colleges

### 1872 - 1889: Sliding Seats

* Brock, Thomas - “The Queen's Memorial” - Spy - September 25, 1905 - The 1872 London v. Atalanta Boat Race
* Brooks, Frederick Vincent - “A Master Craftsman” - WH - September 18, 1912 - Rowing Pictures
* Lord Barnard (Henry de Vere Vane) - “Raby Castle” - GAF - December 15, 1898
* Bankes, John Eldon - “Good Form” - Spy - March 29, 1906 - Henley Society and Houseboats
* Eaton, Herbert Francis (Major General Lord Cheylesmore) - “Brown” - (Spy) - October 31, 1891; and “Arms and Sport” - Ray - July 17, 1912 - Oarsmen at War
* Fuller-Acland-Hood, Alexander (Baron St. Audries) - "First Conservative Whip" - Spy - November 26, 1903
* Compton, Lord Alwyne Frederick - “North Bedfordshire” - Spy - April 3, 1902
* Vincent, Edgar (Viscount D’Abernon) - “Eastern Finance” - Spy - April 20, 1899 - To a Henley Minstrel
* Angle, Bernard Jack - “Jack in the Box” - F.C.G. - April 5, 1890 - Henley 1878: Thames R.C. in the Grand
* Grenfell, William Henry (Lord Desborough) - “Taplow Court” - Spy - December 20, 1890 - The 1877 Boat Race: The Dead Heat
* Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers - “Rudy” - Spy - January 17, 1895 - "The Perfect Oar"
* Rowe, George Duncan - “A Celebrated Oarsman who prefers cricket to rowing and golf to both” - Spy - July 4, 1906 - Toilettes for Henley Week
* Shearman, Montague - “A.A.A.” - WAG - July 4, 1895 - The 1878 Boat Race: Oxford Sliding
* Baring, John (Lord Revelstoke) - “Barings” - Spy - August 11, 1898
* McCalmont, Harry Leslie Blundell - “Mr. H.L.B. McCalmont” - Spy - October 5, 1889; and “Giralda” - Spy - January 9, 1896 - Henley 1880: Eton in the Ladies'
* de Havilland, Reginald Suarez - “Havvy” - Spy - July 4, 1901 - The 1884 Torpids
* McLean, Douglas Hamilton - “Ducker” - Spy - April 8, 1897 - The 1887 Boat Race: McLean's Broken Oar
* McKenna, Reginald - “In the Winning Crew” - Spy - October 31, 1906; and “The Universal Puzzle Is: Find Mr. McKenna” - Owl - April 23, 1913 - Early Fairbairnism
* Pemberton, Max - “A Puritan’s Wife” - Spy - February 4, 1897 - Punts Amuck
* Searle, Henry Ernest - “H. Searle/ Professional Champion Sculler of the World” - Spy - September 7, 1889 - Professional Sculling
* Douglas-Scott-Montagu, John Walter Edward - “A Southern Scott” - Spy - October 8, 1896
* Muttlebury, Stanley Duff - “One of the Presidents” - Spy - March 22, 1890 - The 1890 Boat Race, Part I: “A Poorer Lot than Usual”

### 1890 - 1898: Oxford’s Decade

* Nickalls, Guy - “Wingfield Sculls” - Spy - July 20, 1889 - The 1908 London Olympics: Nickalls’ Finale
* Smith, William Frederick Danvers (Viscount Hambleden) - “Head of the greatest publishing house in Christendom” - Spy - December 8, 1904 - Problems in Pairs
* Forster, Robert Henry - “Bill” - ELF - July 6, 1910 - A Boat Race Fantasy
* Lord Ampthill (Oliver Arthur Villiers Russell) - “O.U.B.C.” - Spy - March 21, 1891 - The 1890 Boat Race, Part II: Tom Nickalls’ Insider Trading
* Fletcher, William Alfred Littledale - “Flea” - Spy - March 18, 1893 - University Sports, Part II: “The Serious Side”
* Cotton, Hugh Benjamin - "Benjie" - Spy - March 15, 1894 - The 1893 Boat Race: Oxford's Health
* Fogg-Elliot, Charles Thurston - “Fogg” - Spy - March 22, 1894 - Henley 1893: A Woodgate Sampler
* Pitman, Charles Murray - “O.U.B.C.” - Spy - March 28, 1895 - The Silvery Thames
* Crum, Walter Erskine - “Crumbo” - Spy - March 19, 1896 - The 1896 Boat Race
* Guinness, Rupert Edward Cecil Lee (Lord Iveagh) - “Rupert” - Spy - November 9, 1905 - Henley 1895 and 1896: The Diamond Sculls
* Gold, Harcourt Gilbey - “Tarka” - Spy - March 23, 1899 - Romance and Rowing

### 1899 - 1914: Fairbairnism and Foreigners

* Dudley-Ward, William - "C.U.B.C." - Spy - March 29, 1900 - The 1899 Boat Race
* Hemmerde, Edward G. - "The New Recorder" - Spy - May 19, 1909 - Romance and Rowing, Part II: “In Which a Hero of Henley Suffers Adversity”
* Etherington-Smith, Raymond Broadley - “Ethel” - Spy - August 5, 1908 - Staleness in Oarsmen
* Chapman, Wilfrid Hubert - “C.U.B.C.” - Spy - April 2, 1903 - Henley 1901: Leander v. University of Pennsylvania
* Johnstone, Banner Carruthers - “Bush” - Spy - July 3, 1907 - Henley 1906: The Debate on Foreign Entries
* Stuart, Douglas Cecil Rees - “Duggie” - Spy - March 13, 1907 - Stuart on Styles
* Bourne, Robert Croft - “A Good Stroke” - Ape Junior - March 29, 1911 - The 1911 Boat Race
* Swann, Sydney Ernest - “The Light Blue Stroke” - WH - April 3, 1912 - The 1912 Stockholm Olympics: English Decadence