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Packwood

American  
[pak-wood] / ˈpækˌwʊd /

noun

  1. Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.


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"When people think of him now... they don't think of a sporting person, but he was the public school fencing champion in 1892 and when in the Army in India, his polo team won an inter-regimental cup in 1899," said Mr Packwood.

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Director Allen Packwood said while most people know Churchill as "the wartime leader and a bigger man", he was a keen sportsman in his youth.

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The discovery was made after David Freeman, who edits Finest Hour, the journal of the International Churchill Society, asked Mr Packwood to see if there was anything that might link Churchill to the Olympics.

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Briton Sarah Packwood and her Canadian husband Brett Clibbery are thought to have abandoned their yacht and perished before washing up on Sable Island near Nova Scotia in Canada on 12 July.

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“It’s probably the biggest adventure of our lives so far,” Ms Packwood added.

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