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445 Michael (‘Mike’) CRUMP (1928-2008) (Member 1960 to 1970 - see #373; rejoined 24.4.1972;
President 1981-82; made a Paul Harris Fellow 1999; died 5.4.2008 whilst still
a member.) Building Construction. He rejoined as a Building Surveyor with
builders A H Guest Limited of Amblecote but in 1976 he moved to Bucknall
Austin & Partners, quantity surveyors and building project managers of
Birmingham. The practice expanded rapidly and became a publicly quoted
company in the mid-1980s and is now an international building consultancy.
Michael was made an Associate Director and was also a Trustee of the firm’s
pension funds. He retired in 1992. He started work with family building firm
A J Guest & Sons after attending Dudley Grammar School then moved to A
H Guest in 1970. He lived in Priory Close, Dudley for 50 years, in a house built by his
grandfather’s firm.

446 Alfred George GRIFFITHS (1920-1992) (Inducted 1.5.1972;left during 1974-75.) Friendly
Societies. He was Manager of the Ideal Benefit Society office in Holloway Chambers, Priory
Street, Dudley but was described also as the Society’s West Midlands Regional Officer. He is
thought to have grown up in Gloucester where he first started work as a van driver, but married
in Lichfield and lived in Walsall from at least the 1960s.

xxx Francis Henry PAYNE (1909-1995) was approved for membership and due to be inducted
1.5.1972 but may not have actually joined. Construction Service - Building Repairs & Decorating.
Director of Thos Payne & Sons Ltd of 31 Churchfield Street, Dudley and a successful budgerigar
breeder.

447 John Francis Edward BENT (1915-2000) (Inducted 31.7.1972; left in 1988/89.) Plumbing.
Proprietor of John Bent (Heating & Plumbing) Ltd, sanitary, plumbing and
heating engineers of Waterloo Street, Dudley. He established the business
about 1957 and retired in 1984. He was previously in Wednesbury for 20
years. He remarried in 1959 and lived at Goldthorn Park, Wolverhampton
for nearly 10 years, then in Paganel Drive, Dudley, and during retirement at
Rotary House, Russells Hall, Dudley. He was closely involved with the St
John Ambulance Brigade in Dudley and county-wide, having joined at age
18 and eventually rising to the rank of Commander of the Order of St John
of Jerusalem. His son John joined him in the business and was a briefly a member of the Rotary
club in 1982 (#498).

448 Raymond (‘Ray’) Glazzard, JP (1938- ) (Inducted 31.7.1972; President
1978-79; made a Paul Harris Fellow 1994, with added ‘sapphire’ in 2011;
still a member at 2022.) Metal fabrications. Managing Director of Glazzard
Iron & Steel Ltd, Netherton, specialist architectural and structural steel
fabricators. The company made and installed products such as staircases,
balustrades and fire escape systems in many prestigious developments
including the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham and The Shard
skyscraper in London. He founded the company in 1970 after having been
brought up in Tipton and attended Tipton grammar school, served a
technical apprenticeship, and had experience with several local engineering companies. He
retired from the business in 1997, to be succeeded by Roger Emery (club member #524) and
later his son Andrew (member #558). Ray was made a Paul Harris Fellow in 1994, the first in the
cub’s history, for his great contribution to the club’s activities, in particular in promoting and
successfully completing the Ashraya project at Bargarh, Orissa, India. This involved moving 40
lepers and their families from mud hovels to a new village of brick and concrete bungalows with
land for crops and animals. A school and clinic soon followed. The 5-year project won the