Richard Boyle (rowing)

Richard Frederick Robert Pochin Boyle (11 October 1888 – 6 February 1953) was a British coxswain who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

The Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

[2] In the First World War, Boyle was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 14 September 1914.

[3] He was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 9 December 1914,[4] temporary captain on 23 July 1915,[5] substantive lieutenant on 14 July 1916[6] and substantive captain on 24 June 1917.

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