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Mr Burgess , who last week succeeded in duplicating Captain Webb's hitherto unique feat of swimming across the Channel, is a Yorkshireman who for some years has been a resident in Paris, where he is engaged in buisness connected with motortyres . Captian Webb swam from Dover to Calais in 1875 in 21 hours 49 minutes : Mr Burgess swam from the South Foreland, near Dover , to Cape Grisnez in 22 hours 35 minutes on 6 September 1911. He is over forty, and had made fifteen previous attempts to swim the Channel . 16 September 1911