Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers
Date Born/Est
03 Jan 1856
Date Died/Ceased
22 Jan 1929
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RUDY LEHMANN, oarsman, coach, MP, writer
Rudolph Chambers (Rudy) Lehmann (1856-1929) was a well-known coach, a Henley Steward and a sensitive and liberal-minded secretary of the Amateur Rowing Association (1893-1901). He did much to ameliorate the harshness of the ARA's attitudes towards the alternative but less powerful National Amateur Rowing Association whose definition of an amateur was wider than that of the ARA. He had, however, very real reservations about international competition in rowing and was opposed to the Olympic movement, fearing that it would make a business out of what was intended to be pleasure.
A considerable writer on rowing, both text-books and light verse, much of it in Punch. Something of a radical in politics, he was a Member of Parliament as a Liberal between 1906 and 1910.
Rudolph Chambers (Rudy) Lehmann (1856-1929) was a well-known coach, a Henley Steward and a sensitive and liberal-minded secretary of the Amateur Rowing Association (1893-1901). He did much to ameliorate the harshness of the ARA's attitudes towards the alternative but less powerful National Amateur Rowing Association whose definition of an amateur was wider than that of the ARA. He had, however, very real reservations about international competition in rowing and was opposed to the Olympic movement, fearing that it would make a business out of what was intended to be pleasure.
A considerable writer on rowing, both text-books and light verse, much of it in Punch. Something of a radical in politics, he was a Member of Parliament as a Liberal between 1906 and 1910.
Place Of Birth
Sheffield/South Yorkshire/England
Place Of Death
Bourne End/Buckinghamshire/England
