Background
Guye was born in Brentford, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover.
Guye was born in Brentford, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover.
His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London. Guye was primarily a sculler and first competed in the Wingfield Sculls in 1927, losing to Theodore Collet. He was selected for the 1928 Summer Olympics and partnered Humphrey Boardman in the double sculls event.
They qualified for the second round repêchage but did not start in this race.
Guye lost to Collet in the Wingfield Sculls in 1928 and 1929, but beat him in 1930. Guye"s elder brother Edward Guye emigrated to Australia where he became a politician in Victoria.
