Gordon Brown 1985

 I suppose that everyone thinks that their own year at school was the best one but I know that mine was! – 1959 to 1966 – St. Bees demolished at rugby and cricket; finalists in the Fylde sevens competition; one cricket defeat in two years; great football team! We even had our share of eggheads – five to Cambridge and one to Oxford can’t be bad.

From this auspicious start Richard Scott and I went to University College London and tried our best, rarely succeeding, to take the capital by storm. Nevertheless, on the first Friday in each month we proceeded to Verreys Restaurant in Regent Street – venue of the Old Barrovians’ London branch – where we imbibed with such as Ian Tait, Ron Jessen, Dave Todd, Mike Harper, Colin Knipe and Malcolm Moffat whilst, throughout, the paternal eye of the late Jack Bentham oversaw all.

From London back to Barrow-in-Furness, via Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, and ultimately Treasurer and now President of the Association and the captain for the last three years of the victorious of Old Barrovians’ cricket team. To the devolutionists among you, of which I am one, such concentration of power may seem unhealthy. However, the concentration of power in this case is more apparent than real, thanks to a most sincere committee and, in particular, to John Winder and Derek Lyon.


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