W.D. Kinnear World Amateur Sculling Champion
W.D. Kinnear World Amateur Sculling Champion “It looks easy, lovely and easy...” A biography by Tim Koch WDK WDK Principal West End Amateur Rowing Association events won by W.D. Kinnear, Cavendish Rowing Club, 1902 - 1905. 1902 WEARA Pair Oar 1903 WEARA Sculling Championship 1904 WEARA Sculling Championship WEARA Senior Eights 1905 WEARA Sculling Championship WEARA Pair Oar WEARA Senior Fours WEARA Senior Eights Principal Open Events won by W.D. Kinnear, Kensington Rowing Club, 1906 - 1913. 1906 Junior Sculls, Molesey 1907 Junior Senior Sculls, Metropolitan Junior Senior Sculls, Kingston Junior Senior Sculls, Walton Junior Senior Sculls, Staines 1908 Junior Eights, Kingston Junior Senior Eights, Reading Tideway Junior Senior Eights 1909 Senior Sculls, Reading Senior Sculls, Goring Junior Senior Eights, Kingston Junior Senior Eights, Metropolitan 1910 Senior Sculls, Walton Wingfield Sculls Diamond Sculls (Henley) Metropolitan Amateur Regatta, Senior Sculls (London Cup) 1911 Wingfield Sculls (Rowed over) Diamond Sculls (Henley) Metropolitan Amateur Regatta, Senior Sculls (London Cup) 1912 Coupe des Nations d’Aviron (Paris) Wingfield Sculls Olympic Sculls (Stockholm) 1913 Coupe des Nations d’Aviron (Paris) WDK at the Stockholm Olympics, 1912 2 WDK illiam Nicoll Duthie Kinnear was born on 3rd December 1880 in the parish of Marykirk near the small rural town of Laurencekirk, which is situated midwayW between Dundee and Aberdeen. His family called him ‘Bill’ or ‘Billy’ but the rowing world was to know him as ‘Wally’ or (inevitably) ‘Jock’. There is no record of him ever using his second Christian name, ‘Nicoll’. He was the son of Mary (née Duthie), a farmer’s daughter, and of James Kinnear, a railway worker, the son of a shepherd.
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