Joseph Frederick Laycock

Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock KCMG, DSO ( born June 12, 1867 in Newcastle upon Tyne, † January 10, 1952 in Wiseton in Nottinghamshire ) was a British motor boaters.

Laycock took part in the 1908 Olympic Games in London more than 40 nautical miles in the A- class part. He was a crew member on the boat Wolseley - Siddeley, the Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, belonged. Together with him and George Clowes, he started in a duel against the counterparty boat with Dylan Thomas Scott -Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, and Alfred Fentiman. Dylan had, however, left the race after the first round and, since shortly after bad weather disabled the remaining boat Grosvenor, the race was postponed to the next day. In the second experiment was then used George H. Atkinson instead of Joseph Laycock. Now was the competitor of the Frenchman Émile Thubron on Camille, the only non-British participants in the field. The Wolseley - Siddeley ran after interim guidance on basic and had to abandon the race. So Thubrons reached after 2:26:53 hours the only one goal and won the gold medal.

The boat Wolseley - Siddeley was named after the built-in car engines and had in previous races even a speed of up to 56 km / h.

After 1908 power boating was never an Olympic sport, so Joseph Laycock was one of probably only 13 or 14 players who started at each Olympic motorboat competitions.

Joseph Laycock was Colonel of the Royal Horse Artillery Battery Nottinghamshire. During the First World War he served in the Middle East in the unity of the Duke of Westminster, which was equipped with Rolls- Royce Armoured Cars. The association was lower against the other Senussi in Libya used. In World War II, his son, Sir Robert Laycock was an officer in the British Army.