caption resting_place death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor image_size nationality title name birth_date term image article_title birth_name
bill beach , champion sculler of the world 1884-1887 st luke 's church of england cemetery , brownsville 28 january 1935 hurstville , new south wales , australia ned hanlan chertsey , surrey , england peter kemp 200px australian world champion sculler bill beach 6 september 1850 1884 - 1887 billbeach.jpg bill beach
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bill beach

william `` bill '' beach -lrb- 6 september 1850 -- 28 january 1935 -rrb- was a professional australian sculler .
he was unbeaten as world sculling champion from 1884 to 1887 .
beach was born in chertsey , surrey , england , to alexander beach , blacksmith , and his wife mary , `` née '' gibbons .
beach 's family migrated to new south wales while he was a small child and he lived at dapto for most of his life , learning to row on lake illawarra .
he began his sporting career in a wooden tub on the macquarie rivulet and ended it as champion sculler of the world .
beach trained as a blacksmith like his father and seems to have been a fisherman for a time .
according to local legend , beach won his first race as a teenager against a local publican , either for a bottle of brandy or 5 `` s '' .
