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Laurie was born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, in 1915, the elder son of William Walker Laurie (1882–1976), a tenant farmer who later worked for the Ely Sugar Beet Company, and Margaret Grieve (née Mundell) (1886–1959), who took in paying guests at their house, and during the Second World War was live-in housekeeper for Bishop George Chase, then master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
THE OARSMAN Ran Laurie won a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics, with his colleague in the Sudan Political Service Jack Wilson. The coxless pair's achievement was the more remarkable in that they ...
Sep 27, 2013 · Ran Laurie stroking the 1936 Cambridge crew. Jack Wilson in 7-seat and Noel Duckworth coxing. After my review of Daniel James Brown’s brilliant book The Boys in the Boat (on HTBS on 19 August ), he and I have had some fruitful e-mail exchanges about rowing, a sort of continuing ‘discussion’ that, in a way, started when we first met at one of his book signings in Connecticut in June.
Ran Laurie, who was educated at Monkton Combe and Selwyn College, Cambridge, established a fine reputation as stroke when he was an undergraduate. He was in the winning Cambridge eight for three successive years and in the last two years, 1935 and 1936, he was the stroke.
Jan 23, 2024 · A Cambridgeshire-born talent, Ran Laurie began rowing at the Somerset-based public school Monkton Combe School. He continued his rowing career as a student at Cambridge, before pursuing it in the Olympics. Though he did not win any medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, Laurie was there with Clooney's ‘Boys in the Boat’.
- Ollie Macnaughton
Sep 19, 1998 · Ran Laurie was a British rower who won gold in the coxless pairs at the 1948 Olympics with Jack Wilson. He also stroked the winning Leander eight at Henley in 1934 and worked as a doctor in Sudan and Oxford.
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Mar 21, 2023 · One of the 1934 Cambridge crew was William George Ranald Mundell “Ran” Laurie. Ran went on to win Olympic gold as a rower in 1948, with Jack Wilson in the coxless pairs. Wilson was also in the 1934 winning Cambridge crew and their boatmates Annesley Kingsford, Kenneth Payne, Bill Sambell, and Noel Duckworth went on to compete at the 1936 Olympics, placing fourth.
