Paul Massey, the son of the Aston Villa FC doctor, was educated at Oundle School and then Lady Margaret College Cambridge, from where he qualified in medicine. He was appointed secretary to the Cambridge University Boat Club in 1948 when he was the spare man in that year’s Boat Race. The following year Massety won the first of two Blues, and was on the winning side both times. The 1949 win was one of the finest finishes in Boat Race history when Cambridge won by a quarter-of-a-length in the final 10 strokes. Having rowed at two Olympics (1948 and 1952), and winning a silver medal in the eights in the first of those years, Massey was appointed medical officer to the British Olympic team for the 1964 Tokyo Games. He worked at the Middlesex Hospital, and was also a member of their rowing club, winning the senior fours at the 1951 and 1952 United Hospitals’ Regatta. Massey was appointed a Birmingham magistrate in 1960.
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