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Robert Royston blade (Museum of Cambridge)

Lowe Double Sculls blade, 1900, painted by Robert Royston

History of the Lowe Double Sculls blade

Information  about Robert Richard  Royston (1828 – 1909) has been researched by Douglas Dashwood-Howard in a monograph published in 2022.

This is the Lowe Double Sculls blade, 1900:

Robert Royston signature on Lowe blade (Museum of Cambridge)

Blade decorated by Robert Royston (Museum of Cambridge)

A brief synopsis of the places Robert Richard Royston lived at:

11/11/1828 born Magdalene Street

26/4/1829 baptism St Peter’s Church

1841 & 1851: family at 25/26 Bridge Street

1851 Robert Richard Royston at 7 Pembroke Street

1861 & 1871: 27 Jesus Lane

1881 10 King Street

1891 & 1901: Midsummer House, Midsummer Common

D Dashwood-Howard monograph:

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