Frank Willan
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1846 – 1931
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Who was Frank Willan?
Frank Willan was an English rower and Militia officer who rowed for Oxford in four winning Boat Race crews and umpired the race between 1889 and 1902. He was also a yachtsman and one of the founders of the Royal Yachting Association, an alderman, a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, an early motorist, and a military historian.
During the First World War, when aged nearly seventy, he drove military lorries on the Western Front in France.
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