Jim Lee-Nicholson

Jim Lee-Nicholson was educated at Rossall School, Fleetwood before becoming a medical student at Trinity College, Cambridge. When he was later a student at the Middlesex Hospital, Lee-Nicholson rowed with the London University Rowing Club, and was in the eight that won the 1961 Thames Cup at Henley when he was that year´s club president. He subsequently teamed up with fellow medical student Stewart Farquharson to form a successful double sculling partnership.

The pair were beaten in the 1962 Silver Goblets final at Henley by the Germans Wolfgang Neuß and Klaus-Günter Jordan, but the two Englishmen won the British Empire and Commonwealth Games gold medal at Perth, Australia that year. They also finished seventh in the inaugural World Rowing Championships at Lucerne in 1962. Both Nicholson and Farquharson were in the London University eight that beat Cornell University (USA) to win the 1963 Grand Challenge Trophy at Henley, and in 1964 they went to the Tokyo Olympics and just missed out on a medal after finishing fourth in the double sculls.

Lee-Nicholson took part in the 1966 World Rowing Championships at Bled but was sadly killed in a motorway accident near Doncaster just a few months later. He worked in the anatomy department of the Middlesex Hospital, studying for his F. R. C. S., at the time of his death.