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Wikipedia / Trinity Hall Boat Club

Trinity Hall Boat Club (THBC) is the rowing club of Trinity Hall, a college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1827 it is amongst the oldest college boat clubs in Cambridge, England. Historically, it is the most successful Cambridge college at Henley Royal Regatta with a number of victories, including winning all the events but one in 1887. The club boats primarily from their Latham-Scott Boathouse on the River Cam.

THBC has produced numerous rowers for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and various national teams, including Tom James, who stroked the 8+ from Great Britain to the B-final in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and won gold with the 4- at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

The club colours are black and white, its nickname is "Black and White army", its motto "Our power's a crescent" (the college crest showing a crescent ermine; the motto used to be "Our powers are crescent" taking the old meaning for crescent meaning growing – i.e. a crescent moon is a waxing moon), and its supporters shout "Row Hall" to encourage the rowers. Unlike other boat clubs, whose scarves are derived from their college scarves, its scarf is made in a black and white tartan.

THBC has a senior rowers' (alumni) club called The Black and White Society.

History

The college first boats, both men and women, have been Head of the Lent Bumps and May Bumps on numerous occasions in the history of the races, dominating the Mays in the 1890s and both events in the early 1990s.

From 1890 until 1898, Trinity Hall stayed Head of the Mays for 33 consecutive days, which remains to this day the longest continuous defence by a single club of the bumps headship since the Lent and May Bumps became separate events.

Trinity Hall were eventually deposed from the top spot in 1898 by First Trinity, who held the headship for 10 days, then Third Trinity who held the headship for a further 24 days, then again by First Trinity for 2 more days, meaning that boats from Trinity College held the headship for 36 consecutive days, but until the 1940s, Trinity maintained more than one boatclub.

Honours

Henley Royal Regatta

Year

Races won

1880

Ladies' Challenge Plate

1885

Stewards' Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup

1886

Grand Challenge Cup

1887

Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup, Ladies' Challenge Plate, Thames Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup

1888

Stewards' Challenge Cup

1891

Visitors' Challenge Cup

1895

Grand Challenge Cup

1899

Wyfold Challenge Cup

1900

Wyfold Challenge Cup

1901

Thames Challenge Cup, Wyfold Challenge Cup

1902

Thames Challenge Cup

1905

Visitors' Challenge Cup

1907

Ladies' Challenge Plate

1910

Wyfold Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup

1913

Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1914

Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup

1935

Ladies' Challenge Plate

1937

Visitors' Challenge Cup

1939

Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup

1947

Visitors' Challenge Cup

1951

Visitors' Challenge Cup

1955

Visitors' Challenge Cup

Boat Race representatives

The following rowers were part of the rowing club at the time of their participation in The Boat Race.

Men's boat race

Year

Name

1829

A. F. Bayford

1829

Thos. Entwistle

1836

Perceval Hartley

1856

J. P. Salter

1856

H. E. Fairrie

1857

W. H. Holley

1860

M. Coventry

1861

M. Coventry

1861

R. U. P. Fitzgerald

1862

R. U. P. Fitzgerald

1864

D. F. Steavenson

1865

D. F. Steavenson

1866

D. F. Steavenson

1868

T. D. Warner (cox)

1870

J. F. Strachan

1873

T. S. Turnbull

1874

A. S. Estcourt

1878

R. J. Spurrell

1881

E. C. Brooksbank

1881

H. W. Woodhouse

1883

S. Swann

1883

F. C. Meyrick

1884

S. Swann

1885

W. K. Hardacre

1885

S. Swann

1885

R. H. Coke

1886

C. J. Bristowe

1886

J. Walmsley

1887

R. McKenna

1887

P. Landale

1887

C. J. Bristowe

1888

R. H. Symonds-Tayler

1888

L. Hannen

1888

C. B. P. Bell

1888

P. Landale

1888

F. H. Maugham

1888

J. R. Roxburgh (cox)

1889

R. H. Symonds-Tayler

1889

L. Hannen

1889

C. B. P. Bell

1889

P. Landale

1889

F. H. Maugham

1890

J. M. Sladen

1890

J. F. Rowlatt

1890

A. S. Duffield

1891

E. W. Lord

1891

W. Landale

1891

J. F. Rowlatt

1891

C. T. Fogg-Elliot

1891

J. V. Braddon (cox)

1892

E. W. Lord

Year

Name

1892

W. Landale

1892

C. T. Fogg-Elliot

1892

J. V. Braddon

1893

R. F. Bayford

1893

C. T. Fogg-Elliot

1894

C. T. Fogg-Elliot

1894

F. C. Begg (cox)

1895

T. B. Hope

1895

F. C. Stewart

1895

A. S. Bell

1895

D. A. Wauchop

1895

F. C. Begg (cox)

1896

T. B. Hope

1896

W. A. Bieber

1896

A. S. Bell

1896

W. J. Fernie

1896

T. R. Paget-Tomlinson (cox)

1897

D. E. Campbell-Muir

1897

A. S. Bell

1897

B. H. Howell

1897

W. A. Bieber

1897

W. J. Fernie

1898

A. S. Bell

1899

N. L. Calvert

1901

B. C. Cox

1902

F. J. Escombe

1902

C. H. S. Wasbrough (cox)

1903

B. G. A. Scott

1904

S. M. Bruce

1904

M. V. Smith

1904

B. G. A. Scott

1906

D. C. R. Stuart

1907

D. C. R. Stuart

1907

R. F. R. P. Boyle

1908

H. E. Kitching

1908

D. C. R. Stuart

1908

R. F. R. P. Boyle (cox)

1909

G. L. Thomson

1909

H. E. Kitching

1909

E. S. Hornidge

1909

D. C. R. Stuart

1909

G. D. Compston (cox)

1910

C. P. Cooke

1911

S. E. Swann

1912

S. E. Swann

1913

S. E. Swann

1914

S. E. Swann

1920

A. Swann

1921

A. B. Ritchie

1921

L. E. Stephens (cox)

1922

L. E. Stephens (cox)

Year

Name

1927

R. J. Elles

1929

R. J. Elles

1933

J. E. Gilmour

1936

H. W. Mason

1937

H. W. Mason

1937

R. J. L. Perfitt

1937

T. H. Hunter (cox)

1938

G. Keppel

1938

T. H. Hunter (cox)

1939

H. Parker

1939

C. B. Sanford

1946

P. L. P. Macdonnell

1946

J. G. Gosse

1946

J. H. Neame

1947

D. J. C. Meyrick

1948

D. J. C. Meyrick

1954

K. A. Masser

1954

M. G. Baynes

1955

K. A. Masser

1955

J. J. Vernon

1956

M. J. H. Nightingale

1956

A. A. M. Mays-Smith

1956

K. A. Masser

1956

M. G. Baynes

1959

G. H. Brown

1960

G. H. Brown

1963

D. F. Legget

1964

D. F. Legget

1967

N. J. Hornsby

1968

N. J. Hornsby

1969

N. J. Hornsby

1973

M. D. Williams (cox)

1986

M. Wilson

1991

Richard A. B. Smith

1993

Will T. M. Mason

1994

Roger D. Taylor

1994

Will T. M. Mason

1995

Roger D. Taylor

1996

Henry G. C. Clarke

1997

David Cassidy

1998

A. J. Potts

2000

Daniel J. Tweddie

2000

Gideon J. Glassman (cox)

2003

Ben Smith

2003

Tom James

2005

Tom James

2006

Tom James

2007

Tom James

2008

Colin Scott

Women's boat race

Year

Name

2023

Rosa Millard

References

  • CUCBC (various years) – Lent and May Bumps programmes.