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496 Keith JACKSON (1945 - ) (Inducted 20.10.1980; left in 1984/85 but rejoined in 1989.) Finance,
Building Societies. Manager of the Provincial Building Society branch,
Wolverhampton Street, Dudley from about 1978 until he was transferred
to Yorkshire in 1985. His home was in Wombourne. He was born and
raised in Burnley, Lancashire. On leaving the local grammar school he
joined the police, at first as a beat bobby and then a dog handler. After a
few years he moved to Crook, County Durham, from where he travelled
widely, particularly into Scotland, as a salesman of commercial
refrigeration equipment. He then joined the investment division of the
Trustee Savings Bank as an investment consultant, before moving to the
Provincial Building Society as a Trainee Manager in about 1976. After a couple of years, he was
awarded his first branch, which was Dudley. While there the society merged to become the
National & Provincial. He moved early in 1985 on being posted to Dewsbury but in charge also
of the Batley branch. In 1986 he became manager of the main N&P branch in Leeds city centre,
but after a year or so he was put in charge of the Harrogate branch (smaller but with much
wealthier clients!). In 1988 he was transferred back to the Midlands as Manager of District
Branch Operations in charge of N&P's branches around Birmingham, the Black Country and into
Shropshire, and rejoined the Rotary club in July 1989 - see #532. He was a most sociable and
humorous member and a keen caravanner.

497 Thomas (‘Tom’) BYTHEWAY (1929- ) (Inducted 12.1.1981; left at
30.6.2012.) Automobile Industry, Tyre Distributing. He was a tyre factor
operating from his various home addresses: at Woodsetton from the early
1960s, then View Drive, Dudley from the late 1960s, and at Moor Hall,
Sutton Coldfield from 1984. He traded as Tom Bytheway (Tyres) Limited
from 1973, and had retail premises on Chester Road, Erdington from 1975
until winding up the business in 1991. He almost never attended the club
after moving to Sutton Coldfield but remained a member, excused
attendance. He was a keen golfer and leading member of Moor Hall Golf
Club, Sutton Coldfield. In 2013 he moved to an apartment in Eastbourne, just a short stroll from
the sea front.

498 Reginald John BENT (John Bent junior) (1940-1987) (Inducted 25.1.1982; left in Nov.1982.)
Plumbing. He followed his father (member #447) into the business of John Bent (Heating &
Plumbing) Ltd at Waterloo Street, Dudley and would have taken it over had he not died at the
young age of 47. He lived in Barnett Lane, Kingswinford.

499 Alexander (‘Sandy’) GIBSON (1934-2019) (Inducted 10.5.1982; left 3 months later on being
posted to Malvern but immediately joined the local Rotary Club and was a member until his
death.) Banking (Commercial). He was a manager at Barclays Bank, High Street, Dudley under
branch manager Eric Davies (club member #464) from 1980 until being promoted to Manager
of the Great Malvern branch in October 1982. He held that post until retiring in 1992. He went
to school in Sheffield and joined Barclays at the age of 16. He held a variety of positions at
numerous branches, including being manager of the Birmingham Five Ways branch in his 30s,
before coming to Dudley, but lived at Solihull from the late 1960s until his move to Malvern. He
was an active member of the Rotary Club of Malvern since arriving in the town: President
1991/92 and 2017/18, Paul Harris Fellow, and organiser of many fundraising events including
the annual Tree of Light and the Malvern Pancake Race.

500 Roger Sidney GIDDINGS (1942- ) (Inducted 10.5.1982; left early 1983.) Building construction.
A chartered civil engineer he was with William Moss (Construction) Ltd of Perry Barr,
Birmingham, perhaps as a local director because this was part of a larger group. Roger never