LEVERELL

W. H. b. London 1 Dec. 1832; ed. Kingston gram. sch.; apprentice to Cox & Son, printers, London; a sculler; took part in the swimming races 1846–53; swam many times at the Holborn baths, where in 1852 he was the champion swimmer; in the light division in the Crimea 1854–5, attached to the land transport corps, went on two expeditions to Kertch, received Sebastopol and Turkish medals; again a printer; on staff of Bell’s Life in London from March 1870; connected also with The Field and The Glowworm. d. London 24 April 1886. bur. Brompton cemetery 30 April. Sporting Mirror , ii 165–6 (1881), portrait .