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A gifted rower as well as an artist, George Carr Drinkwater was born in Oxford 1880 and was later educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford, where he rowed in the University Boat Race in 1902 and 1903. He served in the Boer War and the First World War, earning the Military Cross and twice being mentioned in Dispatches.
For nearly thirty-five years, George C Drinkwater served as rowing correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, establishing himself as a respected authority on the sport. He authored several works on rowing history, notably The Boat Race which remains an important account on the development of the infamous University Boat Race. In 1932 he also assisted in training the British team competing in the 1932 Olympics, underlining the practical respect accorded to his judgement on rowing.
In 1914 he married the Scottish- born soprano Carmen Hill, who had an active career on the concert and operetta platforms in Edwardian London before their marriage, and later resumed the name as widow. They lived in London and had one son. George C Drinkwater died in 1941, aged 60, as a result of enemy action during the Second World War.
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