Members of the club have represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and World Championships.

In 1892 Edward Riley offered to allow the use of his land just above the Meakes boathouse, by 1896 Mr Wethered, the club captain (from the local brewery family) obtained a lease from Mr Ward, a life tenant of the site that the club now occupies.

Ward died 10 years later, but the new owner, Mr Borgnis, granted a new lease[1] the club remained a tenant of sympathetic landlords until it acquired the freehold following the 2011 fire.

During the early years of the club, the Town Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta was a trophy that many of the Upper Thames clubs wanted, and Marlow entered every year from 1871 (except 1879) until it was withdrawn in 1883, and it won 6 times.

Marlow first competed in the Head of the River Race in 1932, and lost further members in World War II.

In 1958 Mike Spracklen and Geoff Baker had won gold medals in the Empire Games 2x event.

Mike Spracklen set up the GB training centre at Leander Club, but that catered for men only.

The late 1990s also saw the early stages of the careers of Sarah Winckless and Katherine Grainger, both club members who went on to World and Olympic medals.

The new clubhouse was opened by club President Steve Redgrave and international coach and MRC member Mike Spracklen in September 2015, at an event attended by local MP (and later PM) Theresa May.

This colour scheme has largely survived, with modern all-in-ones are maroon with a white stripe down the side and the club crest on the front.

The colour scheme is not dissimilar to that of Vesta Rowing Club or Oxford Brookes University.

The bar is run by a trading company owned by the rowing club (which is a charity) and is open to the public on a limited basis.