Bevil Gordon D'Urban Rudd
(1894-1948), Runner; OlympianSitter in 1 portrait
Won gold in the 400 metres, silver in the 4 x 400 metres relay and bronze in the 800 metres at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1922
NPG x84638
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Jean Maby
14 July 2021, 19:05
He was a grandson of Charles Rudd, co-founder of de Beers.
In 1926 he married my husband’s aunt Ursula Mary Knight; they had 2 sons,
Bevil John Blyth Knight and Clifford Robin David Knight. The eldest, always known as Johnny, worked for de Beers and was imprisoned by the apartheid government when caught in bed with a black girl, a law to prevent miscegenation which he had decided to defy. Known by the News of the World as “the case of the purple panties”: she was hiding when the police raided but the aforesaid garment was under his pillow….!