Background
Bumpsted was born at Berkley, Somerset.
Bumpsted was born at Berkley, Somerset.
He studied medicine at Street George"s Hospital, London and became Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1844.
In the same year he competed unsuccessfully in the Wingfield Sculls. In 1845 he was beaten in the Wingfield Sculls by Chapman. Bumpsted was in medical practice in Cambridge and was surgeon at Cambridge County Gaol.
He died at the age of 94 in the Chesterton district.
Bumpsted married Margaret Louisa Yaustin Doria of Flempton in 1856.