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Ran Laurie. m. m. William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998) was an English physician, Olympic rowing champion and gold medallist. He was the father of actor Hugh Laurie .
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THE OARSMAN Ran Laurie won a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics, with his colleague in the Sudan Political Service Jack Wilson. The coxless pair's achievement was the more remarkable in that they ...
Hugh Laurie. Actor: House. Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959, to Patricia (Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, a doctor, both of Scottish descent. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Son of an Olympic gold medalist in the sport, he rowed for the England youth team (1977) and for Cambridge (1980).
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Sep 27, 2013 · Ran Laurie stroking the 1936 Cambridge crew. Jack Wilson in 7-seat and Noel Duckworth coxing. After my review of Daniel James Brown’s brilliant book The Boys in the Boat (on HTBS on 19 August), he and I have had some fruitful e-mail exchanges about rowing, a sort of continuing ‘discussion’ that, in a way, started when we first met at one of his book signings in Connecticut in June.
Jan 23, 2024 · A Cambridgeshire-born talent, Ran Laurie began rowing at the Somerset-based public school Monkton Combe School. He continued his rowing career as a student at Cambridge, before pursuing it in the Olympics. Though he did not win any medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, Laurie was there with Clooney's ‘Boys in the Boat’.
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May 7, 2018 · Ran Laurie was a British physician, rowing champion, and Olympic gold medallist. The younger Laurie once said he felt guilty "being paid more to become a fake version of my own father."
Sep 19, 1998 · Biography. Ran Laurie, who was educated at Monkton Combe and Selwyn College, Cambridge, established a fine reputation as stroke when he was an undergraduate. He was in the winning Cambridge eight for three successive years and in the last tow years, 1935 and 1936, he was the stroke. Later in 1936 he stroked the British eight that finished ...
