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Steve Fairbairn was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 25th August 1862. He followed his brothers to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read law, graduating in 1884. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1886 but did not practice. In 1884 he returned to Australia, where he worked at the family's farming interests in Victoria and western Queensland.

On 18th November 1891 he married Ellen Sharwood. They had two sons.

In 1904 they returned to England and thereafter Fairbairn devoted himself to coaching various rowing clubs, both in London and in Cambridge.

Fairbairn rowed in the losing Cambridge crews of 1882 and 1883 and in the victorious crews of 1886 and 1887, and won many other races. However, his claim to fame rests on his methods of coaching and the success of the crews that he coached. He was always ready to try new ideas in coaching or equipment and he did much to make rowing popular. In 1925 he instituted the ‘head of the river’ race on the Putney to Mortlake course: a bronze bust of Fairbairn, by George Drinkwater, is held each year by the winning crew as the trophy. He coached many successful crews of the London Rowing Club, the Thames Rowing Club, and Jesus College.

He died at his home, the Mostyn Hotel, Portman Square, London, on 16th May 1938. His ashes are buried at Jesus College.

He is remembered in Cambridge by the Fairbairn cup races, which he inaugurated in the late 1920s as a handicap race between Jesus crews to serve as a form guide towards the end of Michaelmas term. The event later expanded to include other colleges and, in 1976, a women's event

A member of the 1971 Henley Crew for the Kent School, Connecticut.

A member of the 1956 crew for the Kent School, Connecticut.

Captain and stroke of the 1966 Crew for the Kent School, Connecticut, at Henley.

William Milner Fawcett was born at Woodhouse, near Leeds, on 12 July 1832 and was the 3rd son of the Rev. James, vicar of Knaresborough.
He was educated at Leeds Grammar School before being admitted to Jesus College as a pensioner on 26 May 1855.
B.A. 1859 and M.A. 1862.

He started to practise as an architect in Cambridge in 1859.
Made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1866, and served as a member of the council, 1871-1873 and 1884-1889, and as vice-president, 1896-1900.
He was made county surveyor for Cambridgeshire in 1861, and diocesan surveyor for the diocese of Ely in 1871.
He designed J.C.B.C.'s first boathouse (built in 1883 and destroyed by fire in 1932).
He carried out work on the Cavendish Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital and colleges in Cambridge, built the city's police station, and remodelled the county gaol. He also restored churches and worked on houses throughout the country.

He died at his house, 3 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, on 27 December 1908.