Bert Bushnell
Bertram Bert Harold Thomas Bushnell was a British rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal alongside Dickie Burnell in the double sculls, having had hopes to compete in the single sculls following a series of victories whilst competing in South America.
Bushnell was born in Wargrave, Berkshire, the younger son of John Jack Henry Bushnell , a ship builder who had operated his own boatyard at Wargrave sinceDecember 1917, and was a former rower who gave up his own Olympic dreams in order to provide for his family, and Lena Simmonds Bushnell , who had been a shorthand typist and an opera singer. His older brother was Leonard John Bushnell . The Bushnell family have had a Royal Warrant since before the First World War and this has continued into the present generation with the senior member appointed a Royal Waterman to the reigning British monarch.
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