Background
Sturges was born at Kensington.
Sturges was born at Kensington.
He was educated at Radley College where he was one of the winning crew in the Ladies" Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1938.
In spite of his size, he was able to creep as stealthily as a cat and ran an effective guerilla campaign. Sturges ran a gymnasium in Knightsbridge for forty years and trained generations of young people, including the four children of Queen Elizabeth World War II He retired to Benson, Oxfordshire in 1992. He trained every day and had sculled on the evening he died at the age 76.