Raymond Etherington-Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Raymond Etherington-Smith

English doctor and rower

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1877

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1913

Profession: rower

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Raymond Etherington-Smith

  • Raymond Broadley Etherington-Smith (11 April 1877 – 19 April 1913) was an English doctor and rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Etherington-Smith was born at Putney.
  • He was educated at Repton School, and before going to university rowed for London Rowing Club, being a member of their Thames Cup crew in 1895 and of the eight that finished second in the Grand Challenge Cup in 1896.
  • He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club.
  • At Cambridge University he won the Colquhoun Sculls, the Lowe Double Sculls, the University Pairs and Fours, and rowed twice Head of the River.
  • In 1898 he rowed for Cambridge University Boat Club in the Boat Race, which Oxford won.
  • In 1899, he became President of the C.U.B.C when Cambridge prevented Oxford from gaining their tenth successive victory in the Boat Race and was in the victorious crew again in 1900.
  • At Henley Royal Regatta, he won the Grand Challenge Cup three times and the Stewards' Challenge Cup twice.
  • He was runner-up in the Silver Goblets partnering William Dudley Ward in 1900 and runner-up in the Diamond Challenge Sculls against F.S.
  • Kelly in 1902.
  • He was captain of Leander Club four times in 1903, 1905, 1906 and 1908.Etherington-Smith (nicknamed "Ethel") was captain of the Leander eight which won the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
  • At age thirty-one he apologized to teammate Guy Nickalls who was ten years older: "I suppose they have asked me because I am about half-way down the line between yourself and Bucknall in age."Etherington-Smith trained in medicine and became a demonstrator of anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, having held the residential appointments, including that of House Surgeon.He died just after his thirty-sixth birthday from blood poisoning contracted while operating on a patient who had gangrene of the lung.

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