woman I’ve yet found, and,
as usual, further information
is thin on the ground. Annie
was born Hagar Ann Luker in
1870, in the Thames-side
market town of Abingdon,
one of eight children whose
father, John Pearson Luker,
was a swimming professor
who was said to have trained
Captain Webb for his
Channel swim. While she
appears to have started her
career as a river swimmer,
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