Weldon Champneys

Weldon Champneys (26 August 1839[1] – 9 May 1892) was an English clergyman and rower who twice won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.

Champneys was born in Whitechapel, the son of the Very Rev William Weldon Champneys (rector of St Mary Whitechapel then Dean of Lichfield) and his wife Mary Ann, fourth daughter of the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr.

Also in 1861 he partnered Walter Bradford Woodgate to win Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.

[4] Champneys took holy orders and in 1881 was vicar of Haslingden, rural dean for Whalley and proctor in convocation for the Archdeaconry of Blackburn.

Champneys married Frances Sophia Feilden in Kensington on 1879.