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continued to live there during the 1980s but has now retired to the village of Westbury just west
of Shrewsbury.

478 Brian Alexander GREIG (1948- ) (Inducted Feb.1977; left in 1981/82.) Painting & Decorating.
He was Proprietor of Brian Greig (West Midlands) Ltd, Coseley. He established the firm in 1976
on taking over the business from his father Alec Greig (club member #469) but wound it up in
1985. He moved home from Wolverhampton to Shoreham, East Sussex where he was briefly
Commercial Director of two computer software companies. In 2005 he retired to Llysfaen near
Colwyn Bay, North Wales.

479 Graham WOODHOUSE (1940-2007) (Inducted Feb.1977; left in Spring 1978.) Plumbing. He was
a Manager at John Bent (Heating & Plumbing) Limited of Waterloo Street, Dudley with John Bent
(member #447). He lived at Wombourne.

480 Rev. Canon Eric Roy SMART (1929-1989) (Inducted 19.9.1977; left in 1988)
Parish Priest. Vicar of St Thomas & St Luke ('Top Church'), Dudley from
1975 to early 1988, and given the title of Canon from 1982. He left the
club on being made Vicar of All Saints, Evesham but died just months later,
in January 1989, aged just 59. He was brought up in Slough, Berkshire. He
worked in the laboratory of a chocolate factory before training for the
ministry at Kelham Theological College, Nottinghamshire, being ordained
as a Deacon in 1955 and as a priest in 1956. He was curate of Ellesmere
Port Parish Church from the beginning of 1956; curate at Farnham Royal
near Slough from April 1958; Vicar of St George’s, Slough from 1959 to 1967, and then Vicar of
St Thomas, Derby for eight years before coming to Dudley.

481 David Ernest Alan BARKER (1942- ) (Inducted 9.1.1978; left 24.9.1979.) National Health Service.
He was a Manager with Dudley Area Health Authority based at Kelvin House on The Broadway,
Dudley, but about the time he left the club he moved to Falcon House as Administrator for the
Dudley Family Practitioner Committee. The Committee managed local GPs, NHS dentists and
opticians. He appears to have lost his job when the FPCs were abolished in 1990 and turned to
GP training and health service support as well as computer facilities management. More
recently, even after moving home from Alveley, Shropshire to Hereford, he has held the post of
Secretary to the Shropshire Local Optical Committee, which supports optometrists and optical
service providers to the NHS. He was born at Staines, West London.

482 David D JONES (1920-2014) (Inducted 26.6.1978; left in 1988/89.) Middle school Education. He
was Headmaster of Bromley Hills Middle School off Bromley Lane,
Kingswinford from its opening in about 1963 until his retirement in 1985.
He was a proud Welshman and native Welsh speaker, having been raised
in the village of Llwydcoed near Aberdare, South Wales, where he was
known as ‘Dai Teisen’ - ‘Dai the Cake’ - to distinguish him from the many
other Joneses in the locality. His father was a coal miner, killed in a mining
accident aged only 40. David joined the Royal Air Force in 1941, spending
the War in the Technical Branch supporting Bomber Command,
concerned first with armaments, then signals, and latterly as an education
officer with the rank of Flying Officer. On leaving the forces his first teaching post was at Holly
Hall School, Dudley, where his future wife Edith was teaching. They married in 1950 but were
not allowed to both teach at same school so David moved to other schools, presumably in the
borough, before going to Bromley Hills. They lived at Wall Heath from the mid 1970s.