Geoffrey Goddard

Geoffrey Goddard was educated at the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and then Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a double rowing Blue in 1924 and 1925. He was on the winning crew on both occasions, the second being when the Oxford boat sank. These two wins were part of a record 13 consecutive wins for the light Blues.

Goddard won the 1923 Cambridge University Colquhoun Sculls, beating the Eton freshman favourite B. F. Stewart in the final. That year, Goddard was also on two Jesus crews at Henley, losing to Imperial College in the final of the Wyfold Challenge Cup, and to Trinity College, Oxford, in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate final.

Having rowed at bow in the Cambridge eight that enjoyed an easy four-and-a-half length victory in the Boat Race to win his first Blue in 1924, Goddard was again on two losing sides at Henley. He rowed at number seven in both the Jesus eight that lost to Leander in the Grand final, and in the crew beaten by Shrewsbury School in the final of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, for a second consecutive year. He was also a reserve for the Great Britain eight at the Paris Olympics.