Championship of the World as a result of his recent victory over Felton in Australia, finds that he will be unable to do the training required to defend his title. He hopes that his nephew Bert Barry, who is 18 years of age and six feet in height, will become defender of the title in his stead" Ultimately his nephew Bert did go on to become Champion of the World, but not for another seven years. A Royal Waterman Barry was made a Royal Waterman in 1913. He saw service in the army in the First War. For two or three years in the early 1920s he was landlord of the Fox Inn in Church Street Twickenham, but had given that up by 1922, moving to No.5 Bonser Road with his wife Lottie. The Barrys had five children. Lottie was by birth a Hammerton, a member of the large family that lived in no25 The Embankment, now the home of The Twickenham Museum. One of Lottie's cousins was Walter Hammerton, waterman and ferryman who was the victor in the Earl of Dysart vs Hammerton case of 1913–15. Later life After retiring from competitive sculling Ernest Barry turned to coaching. He was appointed the Royal Barge Master to King George VI, and later to Queen Elizabeth II until he retired from the position in 1952 because of ill health. In 1934 – 1938 he coached at Danske Studenters Roklub in Copenhagen creating great progress in that club culminating with two bronze medals at the European Championships in 1938. In 1953 he was invited to coach Cork Boat Club in Ireland. While not all agreed with his style and method, there was no doubt that he considerably improved the standard of rowing in the club, and the crowning point was the success in the Maiden VIII Championships in Drogheda in 1957. Barry lived to see the end of professional sculling but was forced to sell all but two of his trophies to support himself and his daughter Thelma, who contracted poliomyelitis. He spent the rest of his life at Bonser Road, off the lower end of Cross Deep in Twickenham, dying in July 1968 aged about 86. References Further reading New York Times, "BRITISH JUBILANT OVER ROWING RACE", 30 July 1912, p. 10 New York Times, "ARNST RETAINS ROWING HONORS", 19 August 1910, p. 7 http://www.corkboatclub.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=50 History by Late Ted Boohig Wigglesworth N, "A Social History of English Rowing", 1992 Richard Arnst, The Single Sculls World Champion From New Zealand, , published 2005. Cleaver H, "A History of Rowing", 1957 Category:English male rowers Category:1968 deaths Category:1882 births