Beaufort Burdekin

Olympic medal record
Men's rowing
Silver medal – second place 1912 Stockholm Men'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 educated at Cheltenham College[3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6] 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.[7]

  1. ^ "Beaufort Burdekin". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  2. ^ State Library New South Wales – Manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue
  3. ^ Katherine Burdekin Proud Man Afterword
  4. ^ Sports Reference Olympic Sports – Beaufort Burdekin
  5. ^ Charles John Darling Inner Templars who volunteered and served in the great war (1916)
  6. ^ Cunneen, Tony (2015). "'Trouble does not exist': The New South Wales Bar and the Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau". Bar News: 77.
  7. ^ Desforges, Kate (January 2015). Burdekin's Utopian Visions: A Study of Four Interwar Texts (PhD thesis). University of Hull. pp. 6–7.