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is made of a section of the boat cut from about the coxswain's seat, is now the official chair of the President of the Oxford University Boat Club ; and there are other souvenirs of the race preserved in Oxford. JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

The race was for the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1843. The names of the Oxford crew that actually rowed, and won by two lengths, were : No bow. st,.

2. Sir R. Menzies, University

3. E. Royds, B. N. C. ...

4. W. B. Brewster, St. John's

5. G. D. Bourne, Oriel ...

6. J. C. Cox, Trinity ...

7. R. Lowndes, Christ Church Stroke. G. E. Hughes, Oriel Cox. A. T. W. Shad well, Balliol

11 12 13 13 11 11 11 10

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3

12 12

2 11

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In the original crew Lowndes was bow and G. E. Hughes 7, F. N. Menzies rowing stroke. Menzies being unable to row from illness at the last moment, in the final heat, and the stewards forbidden, under their rules, to allow a substitute, the crew of seven men was rearranged as above. A full account of the race will be found in Sher- wood's ' Oxford Rowing,' p. 71. The Cambridge crew was :, ,,

1. W. H. Yatman, Cains ...... 10 12

2. A. H. Shadwell, Lady Margaret. 11

3. G. Mann, Caius ......... . 12

4. J. M. Ridley, Jesus ....... 12 6

5. R. H. Cobbold, Peterhouse .12 5

6. W. M. Jones, Caius ....... 11 12

7. Hon. L. W. Denman ...... . 10 11

Stroke. C. M. Viales, Third Trinity 11 13

Cox T. S. Egan, Caius ...... 9 6

Surely Bishop Browne cannot have suggested such an utter repudiation of history as B. attributes to him.

S. R. C. Canterbury.

A full account of the ' Septem contra Camum,' 1843, will be found in George G. T. Treherne's ' Record of the University Boat Race' (1884), pp. 33-7. The "seven-oar" won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1843 by beating the holders, the Cambridge Subscription Rooms' eight-oar. The Oxford stroke, F. N. Menzies of University College, was too ill to row. In 1867 Alderman Randall of Oxford, who had purchased the winning boat, presented to the O.U.B.C. a chair, the back of which is composed of that part of her which contained the coxswain's seat. The yoke-lines are still (1884) religiously preserved in the coxswain's house.

The following inscription 'is engraved in-- parallel columns upon a silver plate let into- the chair :

Left.] Hano quam spectaa

sedem ipsam gubernatoris in sellam transformatam

Carinse in qua apud Henlegam Tamesianam

anno MDCCCXLITI septem Remorum victoria reportata est ;

quibus honoribus In Scholis, in Senatu, in Foro, in Ecclesiay.

Artibus, Armis, Ludis campestribus vel aquaticis,

ubique alumni potiti sunt, horum care et jucunde memor,

'Gratiarum haud oblitus,

Academise Oxoniensis Remigum Consortio

Civitatis non ignobilis

Oxoniae civis

D.D. Thomas Randall

MDCCCLXVII.

Right.] Septem.

II. Robertas Menzies, e coll. Univ.

III. Edvardus Royds, e coll. JEn. Nas.

IV. Gulielmus B. Brewster, e coll. D. Jo. Bapt- V. Georgius D. Bourne, e coll. Oriel.

VI. Joannes Carolus Cox, e coll. Trin. Vll. Ricardus Lowndes, ex sede Christi, olim I. VIII. Georgiua Edvardus Hughes, e coll. Oriel",.

olim VII.

vice Fletcher Norton Menzies, e coll. univ. qua- inter sodales remigii facile princeps. febri furenti-

ipsa hora certaminis.parumper succubuerat. Arturus Thomas W. Shadwell e coll., Ball-

Gubernator. Eneas Gulielmus Mackintosh e coll. Univ. Magister

January 29, 1868.

The five survivors of the " seven-oar " crew were all present at the Commemoration Dinner of 1867 given by Alderman Randall. Col. Brewster, after good service as captain: and adjutant of the Rifle Brigade, became- the first colonel of the Inns of Court Volun- teers, and subsequently died of cholera. George Hughes is the subject of ' Memoir of a Brother,' by Tom Hughes, the author of" ' Tom Brown's School Days.'

A. R. BAYLEY.

I take the following sentences from the- account of this race rather too long for full quotation which is given in the Rev. W.. Tuckwell's ' Reminiscences of Oxford ' :

" It was, I think, in 1842 that a new oar, Fletcher Menzies, of University, arose, under whose training the Oxford style was changed and pace improved, with prospect of beating Cambridge, which had for several years been victor ; and the '43 race at Henley between the two picked crews of Oxford University and the Cambridge Subscription Rooms: was anxiously expected as a test. In the last week Men/ies, the stroke, fell ill, and the 'Rooms' refused to allow a substitute. The contest seemed.