Noel Parry Symonds(25 December 1863 – 31 December 1943) was an Englishrowerwho won theSilver GobletsatHenley Royal Regatta.
Symonds was born at Broomy Hill,Herefordshire.He was the fifth son of James Frederick Symonds, a solicitor, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Cleave. He was educated atHereford Cathedral Schoolunder F. H. Tatham andSt John's College, Cambridge.[1]He rowed in theCambridgeboat in theBoat Racein1885and1886 races.In 1888 he won theSilver GobletsatHenley Royal RegattawithEdward Buck.[2]
Symonds was a master atBedford Schoolfrom 1886 to 1933, becoming Vice-Master in 1923. He married Mabel Alloway Askwith, daughter of the Rev. Henry Askwith, Prebendary of Hereford, in January 1906, and had a family.
Symonds died at the age of 80.
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edit- ^"Symonds, Noel Parry (SMNS883NP)".A Cambridge Alumni Database.University of Cambridge.
- ^"Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839–1939".Archived fromthe originalon 9 March 2012.Retrieved15 July2009.