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395 Dennis Fenton CAVE (1906-1988) (Inducted 9.3.1964; terminated 16.5.1978.) H M Coroner.
Senior Partner of solicitors Thompson, Warmington & Cave and Coroner
for South West Staffordshire from May 1950. He set up practice in his own
name in Birmingham city centre in about 1935. His work was interrupted
by the War during which he served in the administrative branch of the
Royal Air Force, being promoted to Flight Lieutenant. He was stationed in
Malta buying up land for air strips. In 1948 he merged his business with
the long-established Dudley firm of solicitors Thompson & Warmington but
offices continued in both Birmingham and Dudley. Additional offices were
opened in Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton in the 1960s. Dennis was
active in the business until at least 1978. He lived in Wolverhampton until 1948, then moved to
Seisdon Hall, South Staffordshire. His final service for the Rotary Club was to entertain a visiting
Group Study Exchange team at Seisdon Hall on a Saturday evening yet on the following Monday
his membership was terminated because, in accordance with the rules of the day, he had missed
four consecutive meetings through being in court or presiding over inquests!

396 Peter Prowse RUMNEY (1928-2006) (Inducted 9.3.1964; left in 1990/91.)
Optical goods manufacturing. Proprietor of Dudley Optical Company Ltd in
Stone Street, Dudley and later in Trindle Road. He moved home from
Tipton to Kidderminster in about 1968 but kept his spectacle lens
manufacturing business in Dudley until winding it up in 1997. He was
brought up in Edgbaston but his father - an ophthalmic and dispensing
optician - had a business in upper High Street, Dudley from 1930 or earlier
so, presumably to be closer, the family moved to Tipton after the last War.
Peter’s brother Austen kept the optician business going after their father’s
death. He joined the Rotary club a few months after Peter - see #400.

397 John Thomas FLEMING (John Fleming Junior) (1939- ) (Inducted 9.3.1964; left in 1976/77.)
Original classification ‘Photographic Equipment Retailing’ but later changed to ‘Property
Developing’. As a young man he joined his father John (club member #337) in the High Street
pharmacy business and soon helped it expand into stationery and photographic equipment. He
became the director of J Fleming (Photographic) Ltd but left that in 1973 to concentrate on
property development and management. He was proprietor of John Fleming (Investments) Ltd
and later a director of numerous property companies based in Birmingham, including Whitehill
Properties, Cameron-Milla, Envoy Estates, and City Rentals. In the 1990s he was a director of
Blackwell Golf Club, Bromsgrove. He moved home from Kingswinford to Belbroughton about
1965, and then to Kidderminster in 1972.

398 Samuel Arthur PRICE (1923-83) (Inducted 11.5.1964; left during late 1967.) Office Equipment -
Distributing. He was with Pensnett Printing Co Ltd of Garratt Street, Hart's Hill, Dudley, and
believed to be a director. He is thought to have been brought up in Netherton, Dudley. His
home was in Cradley Heath until about 1970 when he appears to have moved to Alveley.