Kerry Ashby

Kerry Ayling Ashby (4 September 1928 – 3 March 2015) was a New Zealand rower.

Early life and family Ashby was born in Devonport on Auckland's North Shore in 1928, the son of Catherine Adele (née Gozar) and Edward Ashby, and the older brother of Murray Ashby.

From 1943 to 1946 Ashby was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, where he was a prefect, captain of the rowing team and member of the 1st XV rugby union team. He played senior club rugby for the Grammar Old Boys club.

Rowing career Ashby rowed for the West End Rowing Club in Auckland, and won New Zealand national championship titles in the men's eights in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1963, the men's coxed four in 1953 and the men's double sculls in 1956.

He later coached the Mount Albert Grammar rowing squad from 1966 to 1978, and was the manager of the New Zealand rowing team at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, where the New Zealand men's eight won bronze.

Ashby died at his home in the south Auckland suburb of Weymouth in 2015.