English swimming coaches

Brothers Reg and Cyril Laxton (c. 1910-9 March 2006, c 1912-23 July 2006) were two of Britain's top swimming and diving coaches in the mid twentieth century.

Melanie Jayne Marshall (born 12 January 1982) is a former British swimmer. She has won numerous medals for her country as well as being a swimming coach of the year for her work with Adam Peaty in Derby and later Loughborough.

Marc Spackman (born 7 February 1979 in Lincoln, England) is a former England and Great Britain Olympic swimmer who had a successful International career spanning 10 years. Formerly ranked in the World top 20 in the 200 metres Freestyle, he is a current professional Swimming Coach for The Royal Wolverhampton School Swimming Club.

William Wilson (13 November 1844 – 1 June 1912) was a late 19th-century British journalist, swimming instructor and coach, and contributor to the scientific techniques behind competitive swimming. In 1883, Wilson published "The Swimming Instructor," one of the first books on swimming to define modern concepts of stroke efficiency, training, racing turns and water safety.

Paul Anthony Hickson (10 May 1947 - 27 December 2008) was a British former swimming coach, originally from Leicestershire. He coached the British Olympic swimming team at two Olympics in the 1980s, but behind his sporting prowess, he had been a determined and devious serial rapist of teenage female swimmers, who had misplaced their trust in him.

David McNulty (born 1970) has been the National Lead Coach at British Swimming’s National Centre Bath, Somerset during the last 3 Olympic Games cycles. He briefly served in an interim capacity as British Swimming’s head coach in 2012. British Swimming fields Great Britain’s Olympic Swim Team. McNulty has coached several of Team Great Britain’s swimmers to Olympic medals. He was a 2012 joint winner of the British Swimming Association Award for Coaching Excellence.

Austin Rawlinson, MBE RM (7 November 1902 – 25 November 2000) was one of the first Englishmen to swim the back crawl in competitions, which he has done in ca. 1915. He won the first British backstroke title (150 yards in 1921), and defended it from 1922 to 1926. Rawlinson finished fifth in the 100-metre backstroke at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He also competitively played water polo.

Matthew "Matt" Mann II (1884–1962) was a British-born American college swimming coach and was coach of the men's swim team in the 1952 Summer Olympics that won four gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal.

Matthew Bowe (born 13 June 1983) is a British swimming coach and former butterfly swimmer.

Edmund Caunce Nowell 'Ted' Heaton (late 1872 – 19 September 1937) was a British diver born in Liverpool, England. He is notable for his small tank diving displays during the late 19th century and for his several unsuccessful attempts to swim the English Channel during the early 20th century. Having began training in 1893, he made a total of seven attempts to swim the channel, often coming within several miles of the French coast, the closest being in August 1909 when he came within 2 miles of the coast. His swimming efforts earned him a role as a superintendent of his local swimming baths and a salary of £120 a year which also included accommodation and energy provision.