IT WAS standing room only at St Gregory’s Church in Bedale on a cold February morning in 2017 as hundreds of friends gathered to celebrate the short but joyous life of Andrew and Miranda Osbornes’ 25-year-old daughter Amy, who had gone to bed one evening and never woken up. Amy had succumbed to sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, a rare condition that causes the heart to stop beating without warning. No one who heard Andrew’s eloquent and moving tribute to his daughter that February day nearly six years ago will be in the least surprised by the news that the former huntsman and current chairman of the Masters of Foxhounds Association has his own unique plans to support the cause. “I was planning on sailing across the Atlantic,” he reveals, “but a friend pointed out that if I wanted to raise serious money I should forget about sailing and do it the hard way by rowing instead.”
At the time most of us
