Antony Rowe was later a printer during a period of great change and developed "a successful model for short-run printing".
19 Facts About Antony Rowe
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Antony Rowe was educated at Eton College where he was captain of Boats and president of Pop.
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Antony Rowe left Eton during the Second World War and joined the Royal Navy Submarine Service straight from school.
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Antony Rowe started rowing again, became captain of Trinity College Boat Club, and was a member of the Oxford crew in the 1948 Boat Race.
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Antony Rowe excelled in the single scull and participated in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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In 1949 Antony Rowe was president of the Oxford club and a member of its Boat Race crew that was narrowly beaten by Cambridge.
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Antony Rowe was runner-up in the Wingfield Sculls to Farn Carpmael.
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Antony Rowe coached the Oxford boat from 1954 to 1956 and in 1963.
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In 1954 the firm bought Western Printing Services, which had provided typesetting for the trade, and Antony Rowe became its manager.
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Antony Rowe designed and printed The Western Type Book, with specimen pages of all the many different types held by Western in different sizes which became a bible for publishers' production managers.
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Antony Rowe had identified a market for short-run printing and set out to make profitable runs of 100 or fewer when the threshold was generally considered to be 1,000 copies.
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Antony Rowe Ltd has since become part of the CPI SAS printing group and is a leading provider of print on demand services to both traditional publishers and new self-publishing services that act as an intermediary between the author and the printer, such as CompletelyNovel.
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In 1954, Antony Rowe married Jennifer Renwick, the daughter of the first Independent TV magnate Sir Robert Renwick.
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The marriage was dissolved in 1969, and Antony Rowe married Miranda Noel-Buxton in 1970.
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Antony Rowe had three brothers, Ronnie, Michael and David, and three sisters, Heather, Grace and Glory, who entertained each other as children playing music together.
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Antony Rowe was an accomplished pianist who was never short of female vocal accompanists.
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Antony Rowe appreciated beauty and was Chair of the Bath Arts Festival for several years.
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Antony Rowe has two children, by his first wife Jenny: Giles and Antonia.
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Antony Rowe died in Upper Swainswick, Somerset, at the age of 79.