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Committee, a general commissioner of income tax, and a director of three Birmingham
engineering companies.

411 David Lindsay CARISS (1936- ) (Inducted 31.10.1966; President 1974-75;
Honorary Member from 1.7.2003; still a member at 2022.) Estate agency.
He was Partner in charge of the Dudley office of Cecil Cariss & Son,
auctioneers, surveyors and valuers, in Holloway Chambers, Priory Street.
The firm was established by his grandfather at Temple Row, Birmingham
and Kings Heath, and continued with David’s father in charge. On the
death in 1977 of Noel Thompson, (club member #213), who had a rival
business in Stone Street, David transferred his Dudley office and formed a
new partnership with Colin Jarvis (club member #433) as Cariss Noel
Thompson. This office, and a branch they opened on Kinver High Street, continued until 1997.
In the meantime David remained a partner in Cecil Cariss & Son and became the Principal after
his father’s death in 1980. In 1997 he merged with Bigwood Chartered Surveyors, which had
several branches in the West Midlands, and became a Director of the Bigwood Group until
retiring two years later.
David was educated at Bromsgrove School. He then joined the Royal Engineers in 1954 on a
three year Short Service Commission. Although he left the regular army to join his father in
business he remained in the Territorial Army for a further 10 years, rising to the rank of Captain.
(Military service runs in his family: his father was a Colonel in the Royal Artillery Territorials, his
brother Peter served in the Special Air Service territorials, and his brother Richard who served
in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers territorials was appointed Aide de Camp Territorial Army to
The Queen.) Whilst working in Dudley, David lived at West Hagley, then moved to Claines near
Worcester in 1969 and to Bevere, Worcester in 1987. David is an active member of St John
Baptist Church, Claines, including serving as parish and deanery treasurer. He also continues to
support his former school and has served as a trustee of the Bromsgrove School Foundation and
Treasurer of the Bromsgrovian Club, and is Lodge Secretary of the Old Bromsgrovian Lodge. He
was made an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club for his many contributions to its activities,
including playing a major part in the development of Rotary House, as Secretary and property
advisor from its inception in 1972 to opening in 1977.

412 Cyril Norman RANDLE (1919-2002) (Inducted 31.10.1966; left in 1981/82.)
Plastering contractor. Proprietor of C N Randle & Co (Plastering
Contractors) Ltd from the mid 1950s, with premises in Dudley town centre
(variously at Tower Street, Churchfield Street, Brooke Street and Abberley
Street). He closed the business in 1986 and moved to Bromsgrove. He was
brought up in Wordsley, Stourbridge. During the last War he served as a
Lance Bombardier with the Royal Artillery, being mentioned in despatches
for action in Sicily.

413 John (‘Jack’) William Reginald ROE (1912-1974) (Inducted 31.10.1966; died 24.6.1974 whilst still
a member.) Automobile Painting. He was a director of Edward Evans (Coachbuilders) Limited
of Steppingstone Street/ Pitfield Street, and later Bath Street, Dudley, a company in which he
had a half share with his brother-in-law Stanley Jennings (member #294). However his principal
business was as owner of RB Iron & Steel Co Ltd (RB standing for Roe Brothers), steel
stockholders in Lye. Until 1961 he was also a director and part-owner of builders’ merchants J
Dudley (Lye) limited. Jack was brought up in Netherton and as a young man he started as an
electrical engineer. After the last war he lived in Aston Road until 1970 when he moved to ‘The
Keepings’, Priory Road (now a nursing home). He served as a Dudley councillor from 1961 and
as a Dudley alderman from 1970 until shortly before his death.