Tony died on 11th May 2019 aged 88, at home, at the end of a long illness throughout which he demonstrated the same fortitude for which he was well known at LRC.

Brian died in Brixham of liver cancer on 20th April 2019. He was 72 years old. He was only diagnosed in late December 2018…

The Club has lost a number of senior members over the winter and we were sorry to learn about the passing of our oldest, Dennis Ashton, who was 93 years old and a past Captain in the late 1950s.  He was probably also the last remaining member to have served in World War II.…

Very occasionally the Club loses a member of iconic status, either because of his length of service and the contribution he made, or through his many years of membership, or a combination of the two. Peter Bell, who died in his 98th year in Winchester on 20th May 2016, was one such member…

With the loss of Rob, the LRC loses a colourful character and for many of us a good friend. He will be missed but never forgotten…

John Cooney who died on 21 March aged 54 after a long struggle with lymphoma, was part of the successful heavy and lightweight squads at LRC in the 1990s…

Cedric Sheppard who died on 10 November 2017 in a Nursing Home in London is likely to have steered more Club members around Venice’s lagoon than anyone else. His first participation in the 20-mile Vogalonga dates from the late 1960s and his last effort at surviving the usual myriad of turbulent craft goes back to ten years ago. He mostly steered clinker fours but once or twice an eight…

Members will have been saddened to learn of the death at the age of 79 of Rodney Bewes, for many years a member of London Rowing Club, on 21 November 2017.  Rodney was an actor who came to fame in the 1960s as the character Bob Ferris in "The Likely Lads", one of the most popular BBC sitcoms of that era…

Ian joined the Club in April 1973 and over the next 40 years was an enthusiastic participant in the Irregulars. His linguistic skills being very useful in our trips abroad to the Rhineland Rowing Club in the Hague, Paris for the Traversee de Paris, Venice for the Vogalonga and on the memorable trip to Madrid at the invitation of the Ambassador Sir Stephen and his wife Abby…

Andrew Paterson, who passed away on 18 April 2015, loved the river and rowing, loved Putney and contributed hugely to the life of the Club especially in the early 1970s, when he organised  a vast army of Irregulars. In his later years he was a familiar sight on the Embankment, a very regular visitor to the clubhouse, and became involved in the world of watermen…

Dennis, who passed away on 30 May 2016 at the age of 87, was someone who touched the lives of numerous London members after he joined in 1979.  He will be remembered with affection at the Club as a steely veteran oarsman and determined coach after an earlier successful sculling and rowing career elsewhere on the Tideway, but also as someone of great charm…

Bob Downie remembers the late Ron Needs, who died on 25 April 2016, at the age of 90…

John Francis Northridge who died on 19 May 2015, the day before his 83rd birthday, was a stalwart member of the Club in the 1950s, and took up rowing again as a Veteran with LRC with some success.  He was a co-founder in the 1970s of Bewl Bridge Rowing Club, which rows on a lake near Tunbridge Wells, Kent…