George Carr Drinkwater Art

George Carr Drinkwater was an architect, portrait and figure painter. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, followed by the Rugby School, Rugby, and then the Wadham College, University of Oxford, where he rowed in the Oxford eight in the University Boat Race in 1902 and 1903. He fought in the Boer War and WWI and was awarded the Queen’s Medal and the Military Cross and was twice mentioned in dispatches. In civilian life, he was a portrait painter and architect, roving correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and author (with Terence Sanders) of The University Boat Race Official Centenary History, 1829–1929. In 1914, he married Carmen Hill, a singer active in London during the early 1900s. They lived at 8 Warwick Avenue, London and had a son, John. He died in 1941 aged 60 through enemy action. He exhibited at Liverpool, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil.