Albert De Lande Long (13 September 1844 – 23 February 1917) was an English

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and manufacturer who co-founded the company

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. Before doing so he was a highly successful adult amateur rower.

Biography

Long was born at

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, the son of Peter Bartholemew Long, a solicitor, and his wife Hannah Justinia Falkland. He was a member of

London Rowing Club London Rowing Club (LRC, or colloquially, 'London') is the second-oldest of the non-academic active rowing clubs on the Thames in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1856 by members of the long-disbanded Argonauts Club wishing to compete at ...

and in 1868 partnered

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to win pairs at the

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. He won the

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(in a crew of eight) five times between 1868 and 1877. In 1869 he won the

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equally at

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with Stout, the London Cup at the Metropolitan Regatta and the

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. He retained the Wingfield Sculls in 1870, but came third in the shorter

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that year at Henley. In 1871 he re-won the Silver Goblets with

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. He lost the long-distance Wingfield Sculls to

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. He won the Silver Goblets again with Gulston in 1872 and 1874. Long moved to

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where he co-founded the iron manufacturing company of

with

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. Long married Susanna Kelso at Knaresborough in 1875. Their son Albert de Lande Long (1880–1956), schooled at Winchester and a graduate of New College, Oxford, was also a rower. He rowed in the

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for

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in 1901, 1902 and 1903, winning in his first such year and was OUBC President those last two years.Albert de Lande Long, Jr., biography on Wootton Bridge (Isle of Wight) Historical website
/ref> Long, died at Northallerton, North Yorkshire, on 23 February 1917.

References

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