Cyril Patrick William Francis Radclyffe Dugmore (20 May 1882 – 22 January 1966) was a

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officer and

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who competed in the

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Biography

Dugmore was born in Birr and died on

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. He was a grandson of

William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux (26 September 1795 – 3 January 1886), known as William Brougham until 1868, was a British barrister and Whig politician. Background and education Brougham was the youngest son of Henry Brougham ...

, and a brother of artist-author Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 16 August 1902, and was stationed in

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in the aftermath of the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War (, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and ...

. He was listed as returning to Southampton on the SS ''Orcana'' in January 1903, and as then stationed at

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. He later fought in the

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. Dugmore represented

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in London, where he finished eleventh in the triple jump event. Dugmore finished third in the high jump event at the

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. He was married to New York socialite Lilla Gilbert (''nee'' Brokaw), the widow of H. Bramhall Gilbert, in January 1914. They divorced in 1923.

References

External links

Cyril Dugmore SR Olympics profile
* 1882 births 1966 deaths British male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics Royal Army Service Corps officers British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army personnel of World War I Sportspeople from Birr, County Offaly Military personnel from County Offaly Irish male triple jumpers {{UK-athletics-bio-stub