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Percy Temple Williams was born on 19 March 1866 in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. He came up to Jesus College in in 1887, received a B. A. in 1890 and an M. A. in 1894. He was ordained as a priest in 1890 and served in the Great War from 1914-1919. He became Chaplain to the Bishop of Auckland. He dies on 12 October 1933 in Auckland New Zealand.

Raymond Williams was born in 1921 in the Welsh border village of Pandy, and was educated at the village school, at Abergavenny Grammar School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the war as an anti-tank captain, he became an adult education tutor in the Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies. In 1947 he was an editor of Politics and Letters, and in the 1960s was general editor of the New Thinker’s Library. He was elected Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1961 and was later appointed Professor of Drama.

He got married in 1942, had three children, and divided his time between Saffron Walden, near Cambridge, and Wales. He died in 1988.

Rowed number 7 and coached for Jesus college Boat Club in the 1970s.

John Hyrne Tucker Wilson (17 September 1914 – 16 February 1997) was a British rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist.

Wilson was born in Bristol, Rhode Island to British parents, and was educated in Texas then sent to England to be educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he rowed in three successive Boat Races (1934–36) in which Cambridge defeated Oxford. During the 1935 and 1936 races, he rowed alongside Ran Laurie, who became his rowing partner after Cambridge and a lifelong friend.

After graduating from University, Wilson took a post as a District Commissioner with the Sudan Political Service, missing an opportunity to participate alongside Laurie in Britain’s Eights boat at the 1936 Olympics. With Laurie joining the Sudan Political Service the following year, the two men joined forces in rowing and, while on leave from colonial service in 1938, won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.

Both Wilson and Laurie returned to Sudan following their success, and continued to serve in the Sudan Political Service through the Second World War. In 1942, Wilson survived an attack by a local woman in Sudan who threw an assegai spear at him.

In 1948 Wilson and Laurie returned to Henley and once again won the Silver Goblets, having had little training and no opportunity to row since their success in the event ten years earlier. This was followed later that year by an Olympic gold medal, once again rowing at Henley.

Wilson retired from colonial service in 1954 and worked for the British Steel Corporation. He died in 1997, aged 82.

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