In 2007 won both the eights and coxed fours at the 2007 USRowing championships. He also coxed the Oxford University lightweight rowing crew in 1987. While at university he coxed the college rowing eight. The Boat Race which is a coxed fours event began in 1962. Canada sent one boat, in the coxed fours. In 2017 the coxed lightweight four won the SRAA national championships under Coach Scott Menken. After 2007, the coxed fours (4+) no longer runs as a world championship event. In the 1981 Munich World Championships he coxed the British VIII to silver medal success. Inter and Junior coxed quad crews fight for the same honour in their respective divisions. In 1987 and 1988 he coxed AIS selection composite crews in the coxed four championship. Another son John Heywood-Lonsdale coxed Oxford in the Boat Race from 1889 to 1892. He coxed the winning Cambridge boat in the 1950 Boat Race. He coxed the Cambridge crew in the 1899 and 1900 Boat Races. She also coxed the Oxford eight in The Boat Race 2012. The competition for the coxed four, inriggers was much smaller, with only four nations competing.