Beaufort Burdekin

Olympic medal record
Men's rowing
Silver medal – second place1912 StockholmMen's eight

Beaufort Burdekin (27 December 1891 – 15 May 1963) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]

Burdekin was born in Dorset but came from an Australian family after whom the Burdekin River was named.[2] He was the youngest child of Sydney Burdekin and Lady Catherine Burdekin, nee Byrne. His father had been Mayor of Sydney from 1890-1891 but resigned the role due to ill-health and to travel with Catherine to England, where Beaufort was born.[3][4]

He was educated at Cheltenham College[5] and at New College, Oxford. He was a crew member of the New College eight which won the silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[6] In 1914 he was a member of the Oxford Boat in the Boat Race.

Burdekin became a member of Inner Temple. He served in the Royal Field Artillery during World War I and was wounded in action in France.[7][8] In 1920 he went with his family to Sydney, Australia where he was a barrister.

Burdekin married the feminist novelist Katharine Penelope Cade in 1915. They had two daughters, Katharine Jayne (b. 1917) and Helen Eugenie (b. 1920). The marriage ended in 1922.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Beaufort Burdekin". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  2. ↑ State Library New South Wales – Manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue
  3. ↑ "DEATH OF MR. SYDNEY BURDEKIN". Evening News. No. 10, 150. New South Wales, Australia. 18 December 1899. p. 4. Retrieved 14 July 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Death of Mr. Sydney Burdekin". The Sydney Mail And New South Wales Advertiser. Vol. LXVIII, no. 2059. New South Wales, Australia. 23 December 1899. p. 1564. Retrieved 14 July 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ Katherine Burdekin Proud Man Afterword
  6. ↑ Sports Reference Olympic Sports – Beaufort Burdekin
  7. ↑ Charles John Darling Inner Templars who volunteered and served in the great war (1916)
  8. ↑ Cunneen, Tony (2015). "'Trouble does not exist': The New South Wales Bar and the Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau". Bar News: 77.
  9. ↑ Desforges, Kate (January 2015). Burdekin's Utopian Visions: A Study of Four Interwar Texts (PhD thesis). University of Hull. pp. 6–7.
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