His Family's Continuing Rowing Legacy: Back To The Future
In 2007, Stanley's great-great-granddaughter, Rebecca Muttlebury of Plymouth, was a guest of the Cambridge University Boat Club at the 153rd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. It was a momentous occasion for a young member of a very old family, especially as Cambridge won that day. The conditions were perfectly bright and sunny, yet included a cool wind ideal for rowing. Nonetheless, appropriately, Oxford lost, leaving Muttlebury's old crew victorious in a race witnessed by his modern namesake.
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