The event was established in 1841.[1][2] It was originally for coxed four crews. In 1868 Walter Bradford Woodgate arranged for his Brasenosecox to jump overboard at the start of the race to lighten his boat. While the unwanted cox narrowly escaped strangulation by the water lilies, Woodgate and his home-made steering device triumphed by 100 yards and were promptly disqualified.[3] Whatever passing fame the hapless cox gained on the Henley reach in 1868 was eventually eclipsed by his accomplishments in later life when he, Frederic Edward Weatherly, wrote and published the Irish ballad "Danny Boy".
A special prize for four-oared crews without coxswains was offered at the regatta in 1869 when it was won by the Oxford Radleian Club. When Stewards’ became a coxless race in 1873, Woodgate “won his moral victory,” the Rowing Almanack later recalled. “Nothing but defeating a railway in an action at law could have given him so much pleasure.”[4]
Winners
Stewards' Challenge Cup – Coxed Four
Year
Winners
Crew
Margin
Runners-up
1841
The Midge, Oxford Club, London
D. Stuart, J. J. Rogers, P. L. Powys, S. E. Maberley (stroke), Mackintosh (cox)
10: few s. 1L
Cambridge Subscription Rooms, London
1842
The Midge, Oxford Club, London
D. Stuart, T. J. Pocock, P. L. Powys, S. E. Maberley (stroke), H. Churchill (cox)
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