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10 Facts About Charles Lawes-Wittewronge

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Sir Charles Bennet Lawes-Wittewronge, 2nd Baronet was an English rower, athlete and sculptor.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge excelled in the university distance running events and received an athletics Blue in 1864 for the mile at the Inter University sports, which he won again in 1865.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge was a rowing Blue in 1865 when he stroked the losing Cambridge crew in the Boat Race but was in the winning crew of the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge was beaten by Edward Michell in the Diamond Challenge Sculls in 1865, but won the Wingfield Sculls beating Walter Bradford Woodgate.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge rented a studio in Chelsea, and in 1872, he exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy, Girl at the Stream.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge exhibited his Daphne at the Royal Academy in 1880 and The Panther in 1881.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge Lawes succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet on 31 August 1900.

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Charles Lawes-Wittewronge was one of the founders of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1902 and became its second president.

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In 1906 Charles Lawes-Wittewronge executed The Death of Dirce, a bronze sculptural group based on the Farnese Bull, a classical work depicting the same subject.

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