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'''Michael Henry Warriner''' (3 December 1908 – 7 April 1986) was an [[English people|English]] [[Rowing (sport)|rower]] who competed in the [[1928 Summer Olympics]] representing [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]].

Warriner was born at [[Chipping Norton]], [[Oxfordshire]]. He was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref name="Trinity College Olympians">[http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=427 Trinity College Olympians]</ref> where he rowed with the [[First Trinity Boat Club]] and was a member of the [[Pitt Club]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fletcher |first1=Walter Morley |author-link1=Walter Morley Fletcher |title=The University Pitt Club: 1835–1935 |edition=First Paperback |date=2011 |orig-year=1935 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-60006-5 |page=101 }}</ref> First Trinity represented Great Britain [[rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics]] in [[Amsterdam]], where, Warriner won an Olympic gold medal in the [[coxless four]] with [[John Lander (rower)|John Lander]], [[Edward Vaughan Bevan]] and [[Richard Beesly]]. They recorded a time of 6:36.0 in the final to beat the [[United States|U.S.]] crew by 1 second.<ref name="Great Britain Olympic medallists">[http://www.gbrathletics.com/olympic/rowing.htm Great Britain Olympic medallists]</ref> He was also in the winning [[Cambridge University Boat Club|Cambridge]] boat in [[Boat Race]]s of 1928, 1929 and 1930. He was President of the C.U.B.C. in his last year. He was in winning crews at [[Henley Royal Regatta]] in the [[Visitors' Challenge Cup]] in 1928 and the [[Stewards' Challenge Cup]] and the [[Ladies' Challenge Plate]] in 1929.

In 1930 Warriner went into colonial service with the Sudan Government. He returned to England in 1934 and went into business as an engineer. During [[World War II]] he was initially with the Indian Army but then served as a lieutenant colonel in the [[Royal Engineers]] in Greece and the Middle East. He was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 1945.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042541/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/michael-warriner-1.html Olympic profile – Michael Warriner]</ref> He was [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of Warwickshire and an alderman of [[Warwickshire County Council]]. In 1972, was chairman of the council.<ref>[http://archivesunlocked.warwickshire.gov.uk/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='00541/2/3/2') Warwickshire County Council – Warwickshire's Past Unlocked]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Warriner died at [[Shipston-on-Stour]], [[Warwickshire]] at the age of 77.

==See also==
* [[List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=187-cr1635&cid=0#0 National Archives – Warriner of Bloxham Grove and Weston Park]

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