Cudmore necklace

CR Cudmore (around 1915)

Sir Collier Robert Cudmore (born June 13, 1885 in Avoca , New South Wales , † May 16, 1971 in Adelaide ) was a British-Australian rower and Australian politician .

Collier Cudmore had attended the University of Adelaide and then went to Magdalen College , Oxford. In 1908 and 1909 he took part in the Boat Race against Cambridge for Oxford and won in 1909. At the Henley Royal Regatta in 1908 the four-man without a helmsman from Magdalen College with Collier Cudmore, James Angus Gillan , Duncan Mackinnon and John Somers-Smith , who won the United Kingdom also represented in the rowing competitions of the 1908 Olympic Games . There the four reached the final by defeating the Canadian boat. In the final, the Leander Club's boat was initially in the lead, but in the end the four-man from Magdalen College won with a boat-length lead of one and a half.

In 1910 he was admitted to the bar and returned to Australia. He returned to Europe during World War I and was wounded twice while serving in the Royal Field Artillery . After the war he resumed his legal practice in Australia. He also joined the South Australian Liberal Federation and was its vice-president when it merged with the Country Party to form the Liberal and Country Party in 1932 . This party was the premier of South Australia from 1932 to 1965, and Cudmore was president of the party from 1934 to 1936. From 1939 to 1959 he was chairman of the party in the Upper House of South Australia. 1958 Cudmore was beaten to the Knight Bachelor .

Web links

• Collier Cudmore in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography , accessed March 11, 2017

literature

• Karl Lennartz : Olympic Games 1908 in London. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89609-112-3 , p. 216.