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Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (born 1872)
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Thomas William Burgess was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb, following sixteen attempts. Burgess was British but spent most of his life in France, and won a bronze medal with the French water polo team at the 1900…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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