William Leonard Gill Bagshawe (28 October 1828 – 20 July 1854) was an English landowner and

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who won the

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in 1848. Bagshawe was the son of William John Bagshawe of

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Hall Derbyshire, a barrister and his wife Sarah Partridge. He was educated at

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and

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. In 1848 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley and was awarded his rowing

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in 1849 when he rowed in the victorious Cambridge crew in the

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in the March race. Oxford challenged Cambridge to a boat race re-row in December in which he took part, but the race was awarded to Oxford after a foul by the Cambridge boat. Bagshawe succeeded to his father's estate at Wormhill in 1851. He was killed in an affray with poachers at

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. "A very promising, plucky, young fellow", he went with the keepers to deal with poachers who were netting the

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on his land, and was struck down by them with a stake on an island in the stream. His younger brother Francis Bagshawe inherited the estates. His first cousin once removed was the artist

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.Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. 1, Peter Townend, 1965, Bagshawe of Wormhill and Oakes-in-Norton pedigree

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagshawe, William 1828 births 1854 deaths Cambridge University Boat Club rowers British male rowers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century English landowners People from High Peak, Derbyshire

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