Torpids 1839

BUMPS CHART

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

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg Oriel 1[ 1] 4[ 1] 4.00[ 1] Brasenose 1[ 1] 1[ 2] 1.00[ 2] Balliol 1[ 1] -995[ 3] -995.00[ 3] Exeter 1[ 1] -997[ 4] -997.00[ 4] Christ Church 1[ 1] -998[ 5] -998.00[ 5]

• 4 days: Thu 30 May, Sat 1, Tue 4 and Thu 6 June 1839
• First appearance Brasenose and Oriel in Torpids.
• First Torpids Headship for Oriel
• Notes from Sherwood
  • May 30: In consequence of the Balliol men being in the Trinity boat, they were not allowed to start. Oriel, however, agreed to allow them to keep their place. Brasenose bumped Exeter immediately, and caught Christ Church before the Gut.
• From the main text of Sherwood (p.45)

  From 1839, with one exception [1841], we have a complete chart of the Torpids. They were rowed until 1852 after, or on nights between, the Eights, and as they were merely second crews no record was kept of their names, even when they were head of the river.

• In other news ... [1839]

  Monarch: William IV

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

  May 22

  Former British statesman Lord Durham, as President of the New Zealand Company, formally asks the British government for permission to colonize New Zealand, and to establish a colonial government under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

  May 23

  Turkish troops cross the Euphrates River and invade Syria, but are defeated in battle in June.

  June 3

  Destruction of opium at Humen begins, casus belli for Britain to open the 3-year First Opium War against Qing Dynasty China.

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