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The Working Men's College Rowing Club was founded in 1860 and relaunched in 1879 as the Maurice Rowing Club (in memory of Frederick Denison Maurice, the first principal of the Working Men's College). The club eventually folded in 1894 due to difficulties in achieving recognition from established rowing clubs. The Hammersmith Girls Sculling Club (later the Furnivall Sculling Club) was founded in 1896 by Furnivall to promote the sport of sculling amongst working class women and was the first all women rowing/sculling club.
