Graham Beech
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Walter Graham Beech (6 August 1924 – 10 May 1993) was an English rower who won the Wingfield Sculls, the amateur championship of the Thames in 1957.
Beech started rowing with Birmingham Rowing Club in 1954.[http://www.cabg05071.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/brc/history.htm Birmingham Rowing Club history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813115048/http://www.cabg05071.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/brc/history.htm |date=13 August 2009 }} Partnering Ken Tinegate he was runner up in the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1954.[http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1946-2000.htm Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1946–2003] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716161931/http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1946-2000.htm |date=16 July 2011 }} He joined London Rowing Club in 1957. Although he lost to Teodor Kocerka in the semi-final of the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, later in 1957 he won the Wingfield Sculls beating Sidney Rand by half a length.[http://www.rowingservice.com/wingfieldsrecords.xls Wingfield Sculls Record of Races]
Beech – "one of London Rowing Club's more colourful members" – died of a heart attack in 1993 in Lincoln.British Rowing Almanack 1994England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995