Edward Vaughan Bevan (3 November 1907 – 22 February 1988) was a

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doctor and

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who won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in

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Biography and career

Bevan was born at Chesterton,

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. He was educated at Bedford School where he was in the rugby XV and

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,Trinity College Olympians
/ref> where he rowed with the First Trinity Boat Club. First Trinity represented Great Britain

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, where, at the age of 20, Bevan won an Olympic gold medal in the

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with John Lander, Michael Warriner and Richard Beesly. They recorded a time of 6:36.0 in the final to beat the

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crew by 1 second.Great Britain Olympic medallists
/ref> After university, Bevan was a doctor in

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, and shared his practice with Rex Wood, who competed in the shot put at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics.Cambridgeshire County Council Going for Gold
He maintained his link with rowing - on the wall of his consulting room was a blue oar.Student view of Cambridge philosophy
/ref> He was also senior treasurer of the Cambridge University Boat Club for many years, and was actively involved in coaching the crew,The David Owen archive - the ''Physician''
(

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) as well as being President of Rob Roy Boat Club from 1946 until 1980.– present Rob Roy Boat Club Officers
/ref> He was a frequent correspondent to the '' British Medical Journal''. Bevan was doctor to the philosopher

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whilst he was in Cambridge. After Bevan diagnosed Wittgenstein with prostate cancer, Wittgenstein moved in with Bevan in Storey's Way, Cambridge in February 1951, where he stayed until his death on 29 April 1951.Ludwig Wittgenstein: the final years
In Cambridge Bevan shared a medical practice with Rex Woods, the Olympic shot putter. Bevan died at the age of 80. His elder brother Llewelyn Bevan rowed for

in the

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, but Edward himself did not.

References

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