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COOK, Theodore Andrea : The Cruise Of The Branwen: Being A Short History Of The Modern Revival Of The Olympic Games, Together With An Account Of The Adventures Of The English Fencing Team In Athens In Mcmvi

Privately Published, 1908

Very good in the original brick buckram gilt, spine very faded, light scarring to boards. LACKING 11 of the mounted photographic plates, all of which are Greek antiquities. All of the important Olympic plates are present. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Sir Andrea Theodore Cook (March 28,1867 - September 16, 1928) was a British art critic and writer. Theodore Cook spent his early years in Wantage after his father, Henry Cook, became the headmaster of King Alfred’s School in 1868, a year after his eldest son was born. He subsequently studied at Radley College, where he also pursued sporting activities becoming captain of the football and boating teams. He continued his studies in Classics, at Wadham College, Oxford where he was a member of the boat club, and participated for Oxford in the 1889 Boat Race. He stayed in Oxford after graduation and in 1891 founded the "University Fencing Club". He continued being interested in fencing and was captain of the English Fencing Team in the 1903 championships in Paris and the 1906 championships in Athens. He was involved in the arrangements for the Olympic Games of 1908 in London, being one of the three British representatives on the International Olympic Committee.

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