Their crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup included Thomas Lowther Jenkins in the 5 seat. Jenkins' winner's medal was discovered in a Belfast junk shop more than 130 years later by a member who donated it to the club, where it sits in one of the trophy cabinets. For the first 179 years of its existence, Leander was a male-only club but has accepted women members since 1998. On 1 January 2013 Debbie Flood was elected as the club's first female captain, and was re-elected the following year. Leander was one of five clubs which retained the right until 2012 to appoint representatives to the Council of British Rowing. The others were London Rowing Club, Thames Rowing Club, Oxford University Boat Club and Cambridge University Boat Club. Leander members contributed 23 of the 45 British rowers selected for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Notable members Notable members include: Jack Beaumont Karen Bennett Robin Bourne-Taylor Chloe Brew Sholto Carnegie John Collins Ed Coode James Cracknell Jacob Dawson Katherine Douglas Rebecca Edwards Charles Elwes Henry Fieldman Debbie Flood Emily Ford Thomas Ford Tim Foster Fiona Gammond Thomas George Harcourt Gilbey Gold Jürgen Gröbler Angus Groom Mark Hunter Frederick Septimus Kelly Hugh Laurie Ran Laurie Harry Leask Alexander McCulloch Rowan McKellar Gully Nickalls Guy Nickalls Alex Partridge Matthew Pinsent Steve Redgrave Pete Reed Rebecca Romero Matthew Rossiter Will Satch Hannah Scott Colin Smith Tom Stallard Polly Swann Victoria Thornley Anna Watkins Josh West Steve Williams Oliver Wynne-Griffith In fiction In Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, the character Cousin Jasper (who "had come within appreciable distance of getting his rowing blue") wears a Leander Club tie when he first calls upon the protagonist Charles Ryder to offer advice on being a student at Oxford.:24,25 In the 1981 television adaptation, Cousin Jasper (played by Stephen Moore) is depicted wearing the Leander's "city" tie (dark blue with small pink hippopotamus motifs). In the novel Growing Up by Angela Thirkell, the Rev. Tommy Needham "thought how well his college and Leander oars, never to be used again, would look upon the wall...." The Leander Club figures heavily in Deborah Crombie's detective novel, No Mark Upon Her. Honours Recent British champions Key J (junior), 2, 4, 8 (crew size), 18, 16, 15, 14 (age group), x (sculls), - (coxless), + (coxed) Henley Royal Regatta + composite See also Henley Royal Regatta London Rowing Club Thames Rowing Club Rowing