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{{Short description|New Zealand rower and rugby union footballer}}
{{About|former New Zealand rower|the songwriter, record producer and music executive, who was also known as Kerry Ashby|Kerry Gordy}}
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'''Kerry Ayling Ashby''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=85%}} (4 September 1928 – 3 March 2015) was a New Zealand [[rowing (sport)|rower]].

==Early life and family==
Ashby was born in [[Devonport, New Zealand|Devonport]] on Auckland's North Shore in 1928, the son of Catherine Adele (née Gozar) and Edward Ashby,<ref>{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19280908.2.2.1 | title=Births | date=8 September 1928 | work=New Zealand Herald | access-date=7 March 2015 | page=1}}</ref> and the older brother of [[Murray Ashby]].<ref name="MAGS bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.mags.school.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=2193 |title=Albertian biographies |publisher=Mount Albert Grammar School |access-date=7 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051018054456/http://www.mags.school.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=2193 |archive-date=18 October 2005 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

From 1943 to 1946 Ashby was educated at [[Mount Albert Grammar School]], where he was a [[Prefect#Academic|prefect]], captain of the rowing team and member of the 1st XV [[rugby union]] team.<ref name="RNZ obit">{{cite web |url=https://www.rowingnz.kiwi/Story?Action=View&Story_id=91 |title=Obituary: Kerry Ashby |date=4 March 2015 |publisher=Rowing New Zealand |access-date=7 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094757/https://www.rowingnz.kiwi/Story?Action=View&Story_id=91 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He played senior club rugby for the [[Grammar Carlton RFC|Grammar Old Boys]] club.<ref name="MAGS bio"/>

He was married to swimmer [[Winifred Griffin]].<ref>{{cite news | title=Northland Olympic heroes | date=1 September 2012 | work=Northern Advocate}}</ref>

==Rowing career==
Ashby rowed for the [[West End Rowing Club]] in Auckland, and won New Zealand national championship titles in the men's eights in 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1963, the men's coxed four in 1953 and the men's double sculls in 1956.<ref name="MAGS bio"/><ref name="RNZ obit"/>

At the [[1950 British Empire Games]] he won the silver medal as part of the men's eight alongside crew members [[Donald Adam]], [[Murray Ashby]], [[Bruce Culpan]], [[Thomas Engel (rower)|Thomas Engel]], [[Grahame Jarratt]], [[Don Rowlands]], [[Edwin Smith (rower)|Edwin Smith]] and [[Bill Tinnock]]. At the next [[1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games|British Empire and Commonwealth Games]] in Vancouver during 1954, he won another silver medal in the men's coxed four. He also competed in the [[Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four|men's coxed four]] at the [[1952 Summer Olympic Games]] in Helsinki, but did not progress beyond the [[Repechage#Rowing|repechages]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olympic.org.nz/athletes/kerry-ashby |title=Kerry Ashby |year=2013 |publisher=New Zealand Olympic Committee |access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref>

He later coached the Mount Albert Grammar rowing squad from 1966 to 1978, and was the manager of the New Zealand rowing team at the [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Olympic Games]] in Montreal, where the New Zealand men's eight won bronze.<ref name="RNZ obit"/>

Ashby served a term as president of the [[Rowing New Zealand|New Zealand Rowing Association]], and was made a life member of both the West End Rowing Club and Rowing New Zealand.<ref name="RNZ obit"/> In the [[2001 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|2001 Queen's Birthday Honours]], he was appointed a [[New Zealand Order of Merit|Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]], for services to rowing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2001 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2001 |date=4 June 2001 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=2 July 2020}}</ref>

Ashby died at his home in the south Auckland suburb of [[Weymouth, New Zealand|Weymouth]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=kerry-ayling-ashby&pid=174328248 | title=Kerry Ashby obituary | date=7 March 2015 | work=New Zealand Herald | access-date=7 March 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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{{1950 New Zealand British Empire Games team}}
{{1952 New Zealand Olympic team}}
{{1954 New Zealand British Empire and Commonwealth Games team}}

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