Background
Arkell was born in Boddington, Gloucestershire and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was a rower.
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John Arkell
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Pembroke College.
Career
He rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race in 1857, 1858 and 1859. Arkell succeeded Edmond Warre as Oxford University Boating Club President, and implemented his idea of Trial Eights at Oxford in the autumn of 1858. Arkell took Holy Orders, and was at Manningtree, then Boxted, Essex and then Portishead, Somerset.
He became rector of Street Ebbe"s Church, Oxford.
Arkell married Sarah Elizabeth Harwood at Marylebone in 1860 and they had 4 boys (Thomas, Charles, John and Henry) and 2 girls (Gertrude and Seringa). Arkell died in Hungerford at the age of 87.
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1927 (aged 92) -
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United Kingdom