James Angus Gillan

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Olympic Games 1912: The eighth of the Leander Club

Sir James Angus Gillan , KBE , CMG , (born October 11, 1885 in Aberdeen , † April 23, 1981 in Leigh , Surrey ) was a British rower who won two Olympic gold medals.

James Angus Gillan attended Edinburgh Academy and then Magdalen College , Oxford. He took part in the Boat Race against Cambridge for Oxford in 1907 and 1909, and in 1909 Oxford won. He missed the 1908 Boat Race because of influenza. At the Henley Royal Regatta in 1908 the four-man without a helmsman from Magdalen College won. In the rowing competitions of the Olympic Games in 1908 , the foursome of Magdalen College with the cast Collier Cudmore , James Angus Gillan, Duncan Mackinnon and John Somers-Smith reached the final with a victory over 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 1911 Gillan won eighth at the Leander Club in Henley. At the Olympic regatta held in Djurgårdsbrunnsviken in 1912 , Gillan won the final with the Leander Club's eighth against the New College boat from Oxford, after the Leander eighth had beaten the Canadians, Australians and the boat from the Berlin rowing club in the previous rounds.

Gillan had worked in the British colonial administration in Sudan since 1909 and rose to Civil Secretary in 1934 . In 1935 he was awarded the Order Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George , in 1939 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire . After World War II , Sir Gillan presided over the Empire Division of the British Council . He was one of the organizers of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. From 1949 to 1951 he represented the British Council in Australia and from 1955 to 1962 he was chairman of the Royal Overseas League .

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SURNAME Gillan, James Angus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1981
Place of death Leigh , Surrey