An MP at just 25, he was an archetypal Victorian hearty: a double blue in rowing and running at Oxford, he had subsequently swum the Niagara rapids twice, climbed the Matterhorn three times and represented his country atfencing in the unofficial 1906 Olympics.
Peter Schifrin, a member of the U.S. fencing team in the 1984 Olympics, is a longtime sculptor who has done numerous commissioned pieces and teaches sculpture atthe Academy of Art University in San Francisco.