Cyril Patrick William Francis Radclyffe Dugmore (20 May 1882 – 22 January 1966) was a British Army officer and track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. Dugmore was born in Birr and died on Guernsey.[1][2] He was a grandson of William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux, and a brother of artist-author Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.[3]
He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 16 August 1902,[4] and was stationed in South Africa in the aftermath of the Second Boer War.[5] He was listed as returning to Southampton on the SS Orcana in January 1903,[6] and as then stationed at Woolwich. He later fought in the First World War.[1]
In 1908 he finished eleventh in the triple jump event.
He was married to New York socialite Lilla Gilbert (nee Brokaw), the widow of H. Bramhall Gilbert, in January 1914.[7][8] They divorced in 1923.[9]
References
- ^ a b "Cyril Dugmore". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ Earl of Reading (1918). Who's Who in the British War Mission in the United States of America, 1918. New York: Edward J. Clode. p. 30.
- ^ Hesilrige, Arthur G. M., ed. (1916). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. London: Dean & Son, Ltd. p. 138.
- ^ "No. 27465". The London Gazette. 15 August 1902. p. 5334.
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1903
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence - Troops returning Home". The Times. No. 36977. London. 14 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ "Mrs. Gilbert, Bride of Capt. Dugmore; Widow of H. Bramhall Gilbert Married to British Army Officer at Her Home". The New York Times. 20 January 1914. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ "Mrs. Lilla Gilbert becomes bride of English officer". The Evening World. 19 January 1914. p. 1.
- ^ "Mrs. Cyril Dugmore secures divorce in English courts". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 24 April 1923 – via Brooklyn Public Library.
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