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John Henry "Rob" Derbyshire (29 November 1878 – 25 November 1938) was an English freestyle swimmer and
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player from
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, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics (maybe), 1906 Intercalated Games, 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics. He and Alice Derbyshire founded swimming clubs in Hammersmith.


Life

At the 1906 Intercalated Games in
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Derbyshire won a bronze medal as a member of British 4×250 metre freestyle relay team and also competed in the 100 metre freestyle and 400 metre freestyle events. Two years later at London he won a gold medal as a member of British 4×200 metre freestyle relay team and was second in his heat of 100 metre freestyle and did not advance. Four years later at Stockholm he was third in his heat of 100 metre freestyle and did not advance. The
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credits him with a gold medal in
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, but this is incorrect as sources contemporary to the Games indicate that he was in England too soon after the tournament to have been in Paris. The Daily Telegraph, dated Saturday, August 11, 1900 reported that Derbyshire did not make the trip and was replaced by
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, who like Derbyshire, was a member of the Osborne Swimming Club. In 1921 Derbyshire was a founding member of the Penguin Swimming Club, later to become the Hammersmith Penguin Swimming Club through their merger with the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club (itself founded by his wife Alice five years before in 1916).


Legacy

In 1950 Alice Derbyshire gave a shield to the club she had co-founded in memory of her husband, It was later named the Rob Derbyshire Memorial Trophy and it is awarded each year to the person who has done best for the club. In 1976 the club which he and Alice Derbyshire had created was renamed the
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. In 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the
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See also

* List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame *
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Derbyshire, John 1878 births 1938 deaths English male freestyle swimmers English male water polo players English Olympic medallists Olympic swimmers of Great Britain Swimmers at the 1906 Intercalated Games Swimmers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain World record setters in swimming Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games Olympic gold medalists in swimming