Background
Philip Fleming was born on 15 August 1889 at Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland. He was the son of Robert Fleming a merchant banker.
Philip Fleming was born on 15 August 1889 at Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland. He was the son of Robert Fleming a merchant banker.
He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Fleming made one appearance for Oxford in the Boat Race rowing in the winning boat of 1910. The Leander eight beat the crew from New College, Oxford, by one length in the Olympic final at Stockholm. Fleming rode with the Bicester and the Heythrop Huntingdonshire
He was Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1948.
In 1951 he founded the Public Finance Charitable Trust. Fleming died at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, at the age of 82.
He joined Leander Club and in 1912 he was strokeman of the Leander eight which won the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics. The 2003 Oxford blue boat, which won the Boat Race by 1 foot, was named "Philip Fleming". Fleming married Jean Hunloke, the daughter of Philip Hunloke who had won a bronze medal sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
