Hugh Wardell-Yerburgh
Hugh Arthur Wardell-Yerburgh was a British rower. He won a silver medal in the coxless fours event at the 1964 Summer Olympics, together with John Russell, William Barry and John James.
He was the younger son of Geoffrey Basset Wardell-Yerburgh, by his marriage in 1935 to Elizabeth Alis Georgina Kenyon, daughter of G. L. T. Kenyon, a grandson of Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, and had an older brother, Oswald Kenyon. They were grandsons of Oswald Wardell-Yerburgh. He was educated at Ravenscroft School.
In 1968 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta.
Wardell-Yerburgh died in a traffic accident at the age of 32. He was the husband of Janet Wardell-Yerburgh.
