William Maule (rower)

William Maule (1824 – 16 May 1898) was an English clergyman and rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1847.

[1] He was president of Cambridge University Boat Club and in 1847 rowed bow against Oxford in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in a year when there was no official Boat Race.

He also won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1847, beating the previous year's winner Edward Moon.

[2] Moon had the compensation of being bow opposite Maule in the winning Oxford boat in the Grand Challenge Cup that year.

In 1851 he became rector of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire and was Rural Dean of St Neots from 1876 to 1889.