Henry Callingham

A gymnastics judge, Henry Callingham was on the committee of the Northampton Polytechnic Institute (NPI) before World War I. He was also on the committee of the Amateur Gymnastics Association (AGA) and the Metropolitan and Southern Counties AGA. Callingham officiated at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, where his wife Ada was the Great Britain women’s team manager. Callingham was elected vice-president of the AGA in 1938.

Callingham married his wife wife Ada (Symes) in 1913. She was the 1912 champion gymnast of Great Britain and specialised in the horse vault. Like her husband, she was also a member of the NPI. Henry died tragically when he accidentally gassed himself at his Haringey home in north London in 1944.