Richard Burnell
Rower
Richard Desborough Burnell was an English rower who won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics alongside Bert Bushnell in the double sculls. He and his father Charles are the only father and son in Olympic history to have both won gold medals in... Wikipedia
Born: July 26, 1917, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Died: January 29, 1995 (age 77 years), Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Weight: 203 lbs
Parents: Jessie Backhouse
Children: Peter C. D. Burnell
Spouse: Rosalind Garton (m. 1940)