Torpids 1838

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STANDINGS Start Finish Pos College Pts Pts College 1 Exeter 5 5 Worcester 2 Trinity 3 3 Christ Church 3 Worcester 2 2 Exeter 4 Balliol 1 1 Balliol 5 Christ Church 1 0 Trinity

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg Christ Church 1[ 1] 3[ 1] 3.00[ 1] Worcester 1[ 1] 2[ 2] 2.00[ 2] Balliol 1[ 1] 0[ 3] 0.00[ 3] Exeter 1[ 1] -2[ 4] -2.00[ 4] Trinity 1[ 1] -997[ 5] -997.00[ 5]

• First results of Torpids as a separate event for second boats, run on the spare evenings between the main Eights races, consequently the first appearance in "Torpids" of Balliol, Christ Church. Exeter, Trinity and Worcester, and the first Torpids headship for Worcester.

• Dates: Sherwood just lists 'June' above the results.
• Notes from Sherwood
  • There must have been at least one more day's racing, as Brasenose started above Balliol next year.
• Also, in the main text of Sherwood (p.45)

  In 1838 it was determined, at a meeting of strokes, that no Torpids should put on with racing boats. This is the first year we have any evidence of their racing separately, three nights being recorded in the Balliol book.

• In other news ... [1838]

  Monarch: William IV

  Prime Minister: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig)

  31 May

  Battle of Bossenden Wood: In Kent, self-declared Messiah John N. Thom, calling himself "Sir William Courtenay", and a band of around 35 agricultural labourers are surrounded by soldiers of the 45th Regiment of Foot sent to arrest them following the earlier murder of a policeman. Thom and ten followers, together with an officer and a constable, are killed in what is sometimes described as the last battle on English soil.

  4 June

  First section of the Great Western Railway, engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens from London Paddington station to Maidenhead.

  10 June

  Myall Creek massacre: 28 Indigenous Australians are killed.

  18 June

  The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway opens, the first line across England.

  20 June

  Death of King William IV

  28 June

  The coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

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