Richard Frederick Robert Pochin Boyle (11 October 1888 – 6 February 1953) was a

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who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Boyle was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, the son of Major Charles John Boyle and Lillian Kennedy Pochin. Boyle was educated at

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and coxed the

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boat in the

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in 1907 and 1908. The Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal

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, Boyle was a captain in the

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and was wounded. Boyle married Marion Elisa Hill Wallace, daughter of Major-General Hill Wallace, on 12 February 1918

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1888 births 1953 deaths English male rowers British male rowers Olympic rowers of Great Britain Rowers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Coxswains (rowing) Olympic medalists in rowing Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics British Army personnel of World War I Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers {{UK-Olympic-medalist-stub

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