Arthur Sulley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British rower
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1906
Place of Birth: Guisborough, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 07-Nov-1994
Profession: rower
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Arthur Sulley
- Arthur Lindsay Sulley (8 November 1906 – 7 November 1994) was a British rowing cox who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Sulley was born in the Guisborough district of Yorkshire.
- He was educated at Cambridge University and coxed the winning Cambridge crew in the 1928 University Boat Race.
- In preparation for the Boat Race, he had joined Thames Rowing Club and had come down to the club on Sundays to increase his knowledge of the Championship Course.
- He was then asked by Jack Beresford to cox the Thames Rowing Club eight in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1928.
- After winning the Grand, the crew was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.
- The crew won the silver medal in the eight event.In 1929 Sulley coxed the winning Cambridge boat in the Boat Race again.
- At Cambridge he became friends with the cox of the Newnham College crew – Margery Evans.
- They were to marry, and had three sons.
- Their first son Philip also took up coxing at Cambridge, becoming captain of the Selwyn College boat club.
- Their second son James coxed at his public school, Radley.
- He went to Cambridge, overlapping with his elder brother at Selwyn.
- He also coxed Cambridge, in 1958 and 1959. Arthur Sulley became a coach for Thames Rowing Club, doing it for two weeks a year at the Henley regatta; he coached their crew representing Britain at the Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954.
- He worked in a firm in Derby — James Smith and Company — which since the 1840s had been making uniforms for railway companies (initially for the Midland Railway with its headquarters there).
- He became its managing director.
- He also started a company nearby providing overalls rented out to firms for their work-force.
- The firm after World War II opened a factory to employ women in a south Wales valley, where previously there had been no employment for women — the local MP was Aneurin Bevan, the Labour MP.
- Sulley died at Derby at the age of 88.
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