Cyril Patrick William Francis Radclyffe Dugmore (20 May 1882 – 22 January 1966) was a

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

officer and

track and field athlete Track and field is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of ...

who competed in the

1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori ...

. Dugmore was born in Birr and died on

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. He was a grandson of

William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux (26 September 1795 – 3 January 1886), known as William Brougham until 1868, was a British barrister and Whig politician. Background and education Brougham was the youngest son of Henry Brougham a ...

, and a brother of artist-author Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. He was commissioned a

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in the Army Service Corps on 16 August 1902, and was stationed in

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in the aftermath of the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

. He was listed as returning to Southampton on the SS ''Orcana'' in January 1903, and as then stationed at

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. He later fought in the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. In 1908 he finished eleventh in the triple jump event. He was married to New York socialite Lilla Gilbert (''nee'' Brokaw), the widow of H. Bramhall Gilbert, in January 1914. They divorced in 1923.

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Cyril Dugmore SR Olympics profile
1882 births 1966 deaths British male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics Royal Army Service Corps officers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army personnel of World War I Sportspeople from Birr, County Offaly Military personnel from County Offaly {{UK-athletics-bio-stub