Peter Webb

Like his father before him, Peter Webb was educated at Monkton Coombe School, Bath, before going to Queen´s College Cambridge. At university he rowed with Goldie, the reserve Boat Race crew, before winning his Blue as bow in 1963 when one of his fellow crew members was Arnold Cooke. The two men later teamed up to form a successful double sculls partnership.

Webb was bow in the Queen´s College eight that won the Thames Cup at Henley in 1963, and in 1964 he was in the Tideway Scullers eight that won the Head of the River race. It was a memorable year for Webb in 1964, because he was runner-up to Bill Barry in the Wingfield Sculls, won the silver medal at the European Championships in the double sculls with Cooke, and then finished seventh at the Tokyo OIympics. Six years later the duo were runners-up to the American pair of John van Blom and Tom McKibbon at Henley.

Webb later became a rowing coach at Cambridge and by profession was a structural engineer, working in Hong Kong for a while. He died of cancer at the age of 52 in 1993, and just three days after Peter´s funeral his father William also died.