Original sentence: Born in Naples and brought up on his father's yacht, William Brookes Close was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he participated in the 1877 boat race which was a dead heat between Oxford University and Cambridge University.In 1880 he married Mary Paullin and together they went on to have one son
Edited sentence: Born in Naples and brought up on his father's yacht, William Brookes Close was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge where he rowed in the Cambridge boat in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races of 1875, 1876 and 1877.Cambridge won in 1876 and the 1877 race was the only ever dead heat.In 1880 he married Mary Paullin and together they had one son.List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews