Stewart Farquharson

The son of a Buckinghamshire medical practitioner, Stewart Farquharson started rowing while at Bryanston Public School and continued after going to London University while he was training to also become a doctor. It was at that time that he met fellow medical student Jim Lee-Nicholson and they went on to form a great pairs combination.

Farquharson had appeared in the coxed pairs at the 1960 Roma Olympics with Jeff Reeves and Ken Lester, but failed to reach the final. After teaming up with Lee-Nicholson, however, success soon followed. The duo were classified in seventh place at the inaugural World Rowing Championships at Lucerne in 1962, and a few months later at Perth, Australia, Farquharson and Lee-Nicholson won the coxless pairs gold medal at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. At Henley in 1963 they were in the London University eight that beat Cornell University of the USA to win the Grand Challenge Cup. Farquharson later became a doctor at the Middlesex Hospital.