Downstream

river above Windsor, and
while ‘going down in a
sinking boat’ standing up on
his seat and taking ‘a
dexterous header before the
boat disappeared’.
Until 1839 there had been
‘no systematic attempt to
teach swimming’ at Eton,
according to The Badminton
Library, but that year a boy
named Montagu drowned
after being ‘dragged out of
his boat by a barge rope’. As