Torpids 1842

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STANDINGS Start Finish Pos College Pts Pts College 1 Trinity 10 10 Brasenose 2 Brasenose 8 8 Exeter 3 University 6 6 University 4 Exeter 5 5 Christ Church 5 Balliol 4 4 Pembroke 6 St John's 3 3 Trinity 7 Christ Church 2 2 Wadham 8 Pembroke 2 2 Balliol 9 Oriel 1 0 St John's 10 Wadham 1 0 Oriel

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg Christ Church 1[ 1] 3[ 1] 3.00[ 1] Pembroke 1[ 1] 3[ 1] 3.00[ 1] Wadham 1[ 1] 3[ 1] 3.00[ 1] Exeter 1[ 1] 2[ 4] 2.00[ 4] Brasenose 1[ 1] 1[ 5] 1.00[ 5] University 1[ 1] 0[ 6] 0.00[ 6] Balliol 1[ 1] -3[ 7] -3.00[ 7] Trinity 1[ 1] -5[ 8] -5.00[ 8] Oriel 1[ 1] -990[ 9] -990.00[ 9] St John's 1[ 1] -993[10] -993.00[10]

• 6 days racing. No dates give in Sherwood, but presumably early June
• First appearance of Pembroke in Torpids.

• In other news ... [1842]

  Monarch: Victoria

  Prime Minister: Robert Peel (Conservative)

  June 4

  In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into a British military base in Grahamstown, to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.

  June 13

  Queen Victoria becomes the first reigning British monarch to travel by train, on the Great Western Railway between Slough and London Paddington station.

  June 18

  A primary school system is established in Sweden.

  June

  James Nasmyth patents the steam hammer in the United Kingdom.

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