Elias C. Laycock
Elias Connell Laycock was an Australian competitive rower who three times tried to become the World Sculling Champion.
Laycock was born at Pitt Street in Sydney, New South Wales. He attended boarding school at Newtown for a few years then changed to the Cleveland House School in Sydneys Cleveland Paddocks district. Laycock proceeded to work at various jobs after his fathers theatre was destroyed by fire during a point in which the building was left uninsured for several days. Laycock worked as a sailor in England, a gold miner near the Gulf of Carpentaria, a cattle stockman at Gippsland, Victoria, a sailor again within Australia, then another gold mining stint.
Source: Wikipedia