from Putney to Mortlake. On 5 October 1880, he easily beat T. Blackman. On 2 November he conquered George H. Hosmer, on 6 November he defeated J. H. Riley, and 13 November he received forfeit from J. Hawdon. Also in 1880, Laycock won the Hop Bitters Regatta on the Thames for a £400 purse against other leading world scullers except Hanlan, who was by then the world champion. On 14 November 1880 a great sadness settled over Sydney when the news arrived by morse code that Edward Trickett had defeated Elia Laycock on the Thams in London. He challenged Ned Hanlan for the World Sculling Championship in 1881 on the Thames in London but lost. The race also carried the English Sculling Championship title. That race was on 14 February. He also challenged Hanlan in Australia in 1884 (22 May) and lost again. That race was held on the Nepean River, NSW. Laycock stood in height and rowed at , a more compactly built man than Trickett. Family Laycock married Lucy Elizabeth Gregory on 14 September 1876 in Sydney. They had 4 children. His father was a theatre owner and a Member of Parliament, and his paternal grandfather was a colonial pioneer. Death Laycock died in 1938 aged 93 at his residence in Cronulla, New South Wales, near Sydney. He was buried at the Woronora Anglican Cemetery at Sutherland. Legacy Although Laycock did not win a world championship, he was still asked to pose in a photograph of key Australian scullers at a Lord Mayoral reception in December 1902 with the likes of Jim Stanbury, Pearce, Peter Kemp, Bill Beach, Michael Rush, Edward Trickett and the Towns brothers. Laycock Street is found in Surfers Paradise, Queensland. Other nearby streets are named after other rowers such as Trickett Street, Hanlan Street, Clifford Street and another street named for American rower John Teemer. References 1845 births 1938 deaths Australian male rowers Burials at Woronora Memorial Park