Frank Willan
British rower
Died when: 85 years 42 days (1021 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Frank Willan (8 February 1846 – 22 March 1931) was an English rower and Militia officer who rowed for Oxford in four winning Boat Race crews and umpired the race between 1889 and 1902.
He was also a yachtsman and one of the founders of the Royal Yachting Association, an alderman, a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire, an early motorist, and a military historian.
During the First World War, when aged nearly seventy, he drove military lorries on the Western Front in France.
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