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Bernard Boverton Redwood

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Olympic medal record
Men's Water motorsports
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Class B
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Class C

Bernard Boverton Redwood (28 November 1874 – 28 September 1911) was a British motorboat racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]

As a crew member of the Gyrinus, he won two gold medals in the only motor boat competition at the Olympics. His father was Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet.[2]

Coat of arms of Bernard Boverton Redwood
Crest
A rock, thereon an eagle rising Proper charged on each wing with a mullet of six points in the beak a staff raguly Or.
Escutcheon
Paly of six Or and Ermine a lion rampant Sable on a chief Azure an embattled gateway Proper between two mullets of six points of the first.
Motto
Lumen Sevimus Antique [3]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Bernard Boverton Redwood". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. ^ Bernard Boverton Redwood
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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