A 24-year-old man who drowned in a swimming pool has been named as the son of a world-famous surgeon.
Dominic Hamlyn was found unconscious in the pool at the family's £3.5m mansion in Crundale near Canterbury in Kent.
Mr Hamlyn, a Cambridge University Masters' degree student, is believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest.
The 24-year-old was a first class graduate in astrophysics and continued his academic journey to Cambridge where he studied philosophy at a Masters level.
He was visiting his exquisite home in the tiny village of Crundale when he got into difficulties.
Emergency ambulance crews rushed to the sprawling Old Rectory in Crundale, after 999 calls reporting the potential drowning just after 3.30am on Sunday morning.
Paramedics found Dominic unconscious beside the swimming pool and began attempting to save his life with CPR.
The talented student, who was also an amateur rugby player, was rushed by an ambulance to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford where he was pronounced dead.
Dominic is the middle child of world class neurological and spinal surgeon Peter Hamlyn who specialises in elite sports injuries.
He originally studied at University College London where he received a First Class Honours degree in science and engineering.
Following in his father's footsteps, the Spanish-speaking budding entrepreneur was elected sports officer during his undergraduate degree representing the sporting interests of more than 40,000 students before going on to study a Masters degree in Philosophy at the world-renowned University of Cambridge.
A spokesman for the University College London declined to comment on the death of their alumni.
A pathologist will carry out a post-mortem examination on Dominic's body to ascertain the exact cause of his death, within the next few days.
A spokesman for Kent Police said today: "Police were called to a house in Crundale, near Canterbury at 3.37am on Sunday, July 28 following an incident in a swimming pool where a man was found unconscious.
"The man was taken to hospital where he later died.
"Police are investigating the circumstances around in the incident and at this stage the man's death is being treated as unexplained."
They confirmed next of kin had been informed.
No details of how he came to be in the swimming pool in the early hours of the morning have yet been released.
A coroner's clerk for the coroner in Canterbury confirmed that details of Dominic's death had been passed to them and that an inquest would be opened and adjourned in the near future.
Almost 30 years ago, Dominic's father, consultant neuro-surgeon Peter Hamlyn, carried out life-saving operations on the former Commonwealth middleweight boxing title holder Michael Watson after a blood clot formed on his brain minutes after his world title fight with Chris Eubank.
Mr Hamlyn performed five live-saving operations on the near-fatal blood clot on the boxer's brain and his survival is now regarded as a "medical miracle."
