Trinity Hall Boat Club (THBC) is the rowing club of Trinity Hall, a college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1827 it is amongst the oldest college boat clubs in Cambridge, England. Historically, it is the most successful Cambridge college at Henley Royal Regatta with a number of victories, including winning all the events but one in 1887. The club boats primarily from their Latham-Scott Boathouse on the River Cam.

THBC has produced numerous rowers for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and various national teams, including Tom James, who stroked the 8+ from Great Britain to the B-final in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and won gold with the 4- at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

The club colours are black and white, its nickname is "Black and White army", its motto "Our power's a crescent" (the college crest showing a crescent ermine; the motto used to be "Our powers are crescent" taking the old meaning for crescent meaning growing – i.e. a crescent moon is a waxing moon), and its supporters shout "Row Hall" to encourage the rowers. Unlike other boat clubs, whose scarves are derived from their college scarves, its scarf is made in a black and white tartan.

THBC has a senior rowers' (alumni) club called The Black and White Society.

History

The college first boats, both men and women, have been Head of the Lent Bumps and May Bumps on numerous occasions in the history of the races, dominating the Mays in the 1890s and both events in the early 1990s.

From 1890 until 1898, Trinity Hall stayed Head of the Mays for 33 consecutive days, which remains to this day the longest continuous defence by a single club of the bumps headship since the Lent and May Bumps became separate events.

Trinity Hall were eventually deposed from the top spot in 1898 by First Trinity, who held the headship for 10 days, then Third Trinity who held the headship for a further 24 days, then again by First Trinity for 2 more days, meaning that boats from Trinity College held the headship for 36 consecutive days, but until the 1940s, Trinity maintained more than one boatclub.

Honours Henley Royal Regatta YearRaces won 1880 Ladies' Challenge Plate 1885 Stewards' Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup 1886 Grand Challenge Cup 1887 Grand Challenge Cup, Stewards' Challenge Cup, Ladies' Challenge Plate, Thames Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup 1888 Stewards' Challenge Cup 1891 Visitors' Challenge Cup 1895 Grand Challenge Cup 1899 Wyfold Challenge Cup 1900 Wyfold Challenge Cup 1901 Thames Challenge Cup, Wyfold Challenge Cup 1902 Thames Challenge Cup 1905 Visitors' Challenge Cup 1907 Ladies' Challenge Plate 1910 Wyfold Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup 1913 Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup 1914 Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup 1935 Ladies' Challenge Plate 1937 Visitors' Challenge Cup 1939 Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup, Visitors' Challenge Cup 1947 Visitors' Challenge Cup 1951 Visitors' Challenge Cup 1955 Visitors' Challenge Cup

Boat Race representatives The following rowers were part of the rowing club at the time of their participation in The Boat Race.

Men's boat race

YearName 1829 A. F. Bayford 1829 Thos. Entwistle 1836 Perceval Hartley 1856 J. P. Salter 1856 H. E. Fairrie 1857 W. H. Holley 1860 M. Coventry 1861 M. Coventry 1861 R. U. P. Fitzgerald 1862 R. U. P. Fitzgerald 1864 D. F. Steavenson 1865 D. F. Steavenson 1866 D. F. Steavenson 1868 T. D. Warner (cox) 1870 J. F. Strachan 1873 T. S. Turnbull 1874 A. S. Estcourt 1878 R. J. Spurrell 1881 E. C. Brooksbank 1881 H. W. Woodhouse 1883 S. Swann 1883 F. C. Meyrick 1884 S. Swann 1885 W. K. Hardacre 1885 S. Swann 1885 R. H. Coke 1886 C. J. Bristowe 1886 J. Walmsley 1887 R. McKenna 1887 P. Landale 1887 C. J. Bristowe 1888 R. H. Symonds-Tayler 1888 L. Hannen 1888 C. B. P. Bell 1888 P. Landale 1888 F. H. Maugham 1888 J. R. Roxburgh (cox) 1889 R. H. Symonds-Tayler 1889 L. Hannen 1889 C. B. P. Bell 1889 P. Landale 1889 F. H. Maugham 1890 J. M. Sladen 1890 J. F. Rowlatt 1890 A. S. Duffield 1891 E. W. Lord 1891 W. Landale 1891 J. F. Rowlatt 1891 C. T. Fogg-Elliot 1891 J. V. Braddon (cox) 1892 E. W. Lord

YearName 1892 W. Landale 1892 C. T. Fogg-Elliot 1892 J. V. Braddon 1893 R. F. Bayford 1893 C. T. Fogg-Elliot 1894 C. T. Fogg-Elliot 1894 F. C. Begg (cox) 1895 T. B. Hope 1895 F. C. Stewart 1895 A. S. Bell 1895 D. A. Wauchop 1895 F. C. Begg (cox) 1896 T. B. Hope 1896 W. A. Bieber 1896 A. S. Bell 1896 W. J. Fernie 1896 T. R. Paget-Tomlinson (cox) 1897 D. E. Campbell-Muir 1897 A. S. Bell 1897 B. H. Howell 1897 W. A. Bieber 1897 W. J. Fernie 1898 A. S. Bell 1899 N. L. Calvert 1901 B. C. Cox 1902 F. J. Escombe 1902 C. H. S. Wasbrough (cox) 1903 B. G. A. Scott 1904 S. M. Bruce 1904 M. V. Smith 1904 B. G. A. Scott 1906 D. C. R. Stuart 1907 D. C. R. Stuart 1907 R. F. R. P. Boyle 1908 H. E. Kitching 1908 D. C. R. Stuart 1908 R. F. R. P. Boyle (cox) 1909 G. L. Thomson 1909 H. E. Kitching 1909 E. S. Hornidge 1909 D. C. R. Stuart 1909 G. D. Compston (cox) 1910 C. P. Cooke 1911 S. E. Swann 1912 S. E. Swann 1913 S. E. Swann 1914 S. E. Swann 1920 A. Swann 1921 A. B. Ritchie 1921 L. E. Stephens (cox) 1922 L. E. Stephens (cox)

YearName 1927 R. J. Elles 1929 R. J. Elles 1933 J. E. Gilmour 1936 H. W. Mason 1937 H. W. Mason 1937 R. J. L. Perfitt 1937 T. H. Hunter (cox) 1938 G. Keppel 1938 T. H. Hunter (cox) 1939 H. Parker 1939 C. B. Sanford 1946 P. L. P. Macdonnell 1946 J. G. Gosse 1946 J. H. Neame 1947 D. J. C. Meyrick 1948 D. J. C. Meyrick 1954 K. A. Masser 1954 M. G. Baynes 1955 K. A. Masser 1955 J. J. Vernon 1956 M. J. H. Nightingale 1956 A. A. M. Mays-Smith 1956 K. A. Masser 1956 M. G. Baynes 1959 G. H. Brown 1960 G. H. Brown 1963 D. F. Legget 1964 D. F. Legget 1967 N. J. Hornsby 1968 N. J. Hornsby 1969 N. J. Hornsby 1973 M. D. Williams (cox) 1986 M. Wilson 1991 Richard A. B. Smith 1993 Will T. M. Mason 1994 Roger D. Taylor 1994 Will T. M. Mason 1995 Roger D. Taylor 1996 Henry G. C. Clarke 1997 David Cassidy 1998 A. J. Potts 2000 Daniel J. Tweddie 2000 Gideon J. Glassman (cox) 2003 Ben Smith 2003 Tom James 2005 Tom James 2006 Tom James 2007 Tom James 2008 Colin Scott

Women's boat race YearName 2023 Rosa Millard

References

CUCBC (various years) – Lent and May Bumps programmes.

External links

Trinity Hall Boat Club CUCBC (Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs)