Water, water everywhere:

Stephen Drury is a man with unending interest in all things wet, it would seem.

When not working as a marine and transport partner specialising in ship finance at City firm Holman Fenwick & Willan, he is afloat himself as a member of Kingston Rowing Club.

Mr Drury recently fulfilled a long-standing ambition to row the 125-mile length of the non-tidal Thames, starting in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, and ending in Teddington, London.

The row, in an 1893-built single skiff, raised 2,500 for Cherry Trees, a centre in Surrey that provides respite care for disabled children.