Jack Langrishe

This article was published in Trinity News on 7 March, 2006.

Jack Langrishe

JOHN du Plessis Langrishe, captain of the DU Boat Club in 1906, is pictured here standing by the Liffey.

“Jack” was seven man in the crew which won the Thames Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1903, one of only two Henley wins for Trinity last century.

Langrishe is wearing the uniform of the senior eight: a black and white striped zephyr with a royal blue badge bearing the College’s arms, white shorts, and black and white striped socks.

It’s interesting to note that this uniform is entirely unchanged since then. The Boat Club’s senior eight’s members will be seen kitted out exactly like Langrishe when they face UCD in the Colours race at O’Connell Bridge on Saturday week.

Langrishe came up to Trinity in 1901 and took his degree in 1906.

His year as captain was a disappointment. A strong Bann Rowing Club eight dominated on Irish waters, and despite coaching from Cambridge Blue CJD Goldie that year, Trinity’s senior eight were no match for Bann in the University Grand Challenge Cup event at the home DUBC Regatta.

After graduating Langrishe joined the British Army’s Royal Army Medical Corps and was sent to India in 1908 as a Medical Officer.

His rowing career didn’t end then, however. While on leave from army duty in 1909, he stroked a RAMC four to victory at a regatta held in Naini Tal, a hill station in the Himalaya foothills.