// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did Ken Tinegate go to the gate? To get a tine up.
_and_Jack_Brown_(right).png) 1950 British Empire Games, Tinegate (left) and Brown (right) Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 1915 West Bromwich, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 July 1958 (aged 43) Bromsgrove, England | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Deputy Manager | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Birmingham RC | ||||||||||||||
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Kenneth William Tinegate (April 1915 – 18 July 1958) was an English rower who competed in the 1950 British Empire Games. During the 1950s, he was married to British Empire Games gold medalist diver Edna Child.
Biography
[edit]Rowing
[edit]Tinegate had been associated with rowing since he was 17, having been a member of the Birmingham Rowing Club for over 20 years and winning "many trophies" in that time.[1]
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the double sculls with Jack Brown at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[2][3] Shortly before the Games the pair had to purchase a new boat after their previous one had been badly damaged by a submerged tree during training in Southport.[4]
In June 1989, he had a boat named after him by Birmingham's Lord Mayor, Councillor Fred Chapman.[5]
Personal life
[edit]He was employed at the Hockley timber merchants business, started by his father E. W. Tinegate. He was also a former captain of Kings Norton Rugby Club.[1]
During the Games in 1950 he lived at Oakfield Road, Selly Park, Birmingham and was a deputy manager. He was a member of the Birmingham Rowing Club.[6]
On 16 October 1954, he married diver Edna Child, having met on the boat when sailing back home after the 1950 British Empire Games,[7] where he stated his profession as a deputy manager.[8] They spent their honeymoon in Italy.[7] He died just under four years later on 18 July 1958 at Bromsgrove, leaving an estate worth just under £6,300 to Child,[9] who survived him along with his two daughters.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Mr. K. W. Tinegate Obituary". The Birmingham Post and Birmingham Gazette. 21 July 1958. p. 30.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ↑ "1950 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Damaged craft beyond repair". Nottingham Evening Post. 13 December 1949. Retrieved 13 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Boat launch honours the city". Birmingham Evening Mail. 17 June 1989. p. 31.
- ↑ "1905-1960 (Double sculls wins)". Birmingham Rowing Club.
- 1 2 "Tinegate and Child tie the knot". Birmingham Post. 18 October 1954. p. 15.
- ↑ "UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists". Ancestry.com. 8 April 1950. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ↑ "England and Wales, National Probate Calendar, Index of Wills and Administration". Index of Wills and Administration. 1959. Retrieved 29 March 2022 – via Ancestry.com.