Tom Cottingham Edwards-Moss, (7 April 1855 – 16 December 1893), was a British amateur oarsman who rowed in the Boat Race four times and twice won the Diamond Challenge Sculls, and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
[1] His grandfather was John Moss, founder of what later became the North-Western Bank,[citation needed] and his father had assumed the surname Edwards-Moss on marriage.
[1][3][4] An outstanding oarsman, Edwards-Moss rowed for the Oxford crew in the University Boat Races for four years.
[1][3] Also in 1878 at Henley, he beat Jefferson Lowndes in the Diamond Challenge cup and also won Silver Goblets partnering W Ellison.
[citation needed] Edwards-Moss was a lieutenant in the Lancashire Hussars Yeoman Cavalry.