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House Cancer Support, Ednam Road from 2014 to 2018, and a Trustee of The Reginald Unwin
Dudley Charity.

510 Christopher (‘Chris’) HOLLINSHEAD (1953- ) (Inducted 11.2.1985; left in 1987/88.) Insurance
Broking. Manager of KGJ Insurance Services (Midlands) Ltd in Bilston
Street, Sedgley from 1976. This was one of several KGJ offices owned by
family members, each set up as separate companies. He was made a
director in 1991 and became effective owner of the Sedgley branch. He
retired in 2014 when the office closed and the business transferred to the
KGJ Insurance Services Group headquarters on Wolverhampton Business
Park near Junction 2 of the M54. However he continues with the
combined business as a part-time client consultant. The original KGJ
insurance brokers was set up in the 1950s in Bilston by his father Geoff,
uncle Ken and uncle’s wife Jean (hence the initials ‘KGJ’). It is now one of the largest insurance
broking groups in the West Midlands. He was born in Wolverhampton and continues to live at
Tettenhall.

511 John David ROWEN (1941- ) (Inducted 11.2.1985; President 1989-90;
made a Paul Harris Fellow 2003; still a member at 2022.) Industrial
Fasteners [formerly Bolt & Nut] Distribution. Director and Manager of JDL
Fasteners Ltd, a specialist supplier of heavy nuts and bolts in
Wolverhampton from 1993 until 2005 when he retired. He was born and
raised in Dudley, son of Gordon Rowen (member #404) and son-in-law of
Past District Governor Ron Brooks (member #354). At the age of age 17 he
started with accountants Griffiths & Pegg of Cradley Heath, although
helping with his father’s and uncle’s butchery business on Saturdays.
Accountancy did not appeal so after 6 years he joined a steel stockholder in Dudley. Eventually
he and his boss decided that it would be a good idea to start dealing in industrial fasteners. That
led him to set up on his own account. He was owner of Rowen Bolts Limited, Kingswinford, from
1983 until 1991 when it was wound up after his largest customer folded. He then joined a friend
as a director of A1 Shearing Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton, a company dealing in sheet metal, from
1991 before again setting up on his own as JDL. John lived in the Dudley area until c.1973 when
he moved to Pattingham, South Staffordshire. He was a member of PAWS, The Pattingham
Appreciation of Wine Society, a small group of friends who met about once a month at members’
homes to try out new wines.

512 Phillip SHAW (1947- ) (Inducted 11.3.1985; left in 1991/92.) Estate
Agency. Partner in the property agents and valuers Lee Shaw & Millsum
based at the branch office in Stone Street, Dudley. The firm started as
Lee Shaw & Co in the centre of Birmingham about 1958, so the ‘Shaw’
was presumably Phillip’s father. The business opened an office in Hagley
Road, Stourbridge in the mid 1960s. Phillip presumably became a partner
when the practice became Lee Shaw & Millsum in 1975. At that time he
was based in the Birmingham New Street office. The firm soon opened
branches in Castle Bromwich and Quinton, then Halesowen, and in
Dudley in 1983 or ’84. Phillip has never lived in Dudley: he was brought up in the Stechford area
of Birmingham, lived at Loxley near Stratford-on-Avon up to 1985 and then at Kingsbury near
Tamworth until 1998, before retiring to Budleigh Salterton, East Devon. He is a keen bridge
player and active member of the Budleigh Salterton Croquet Club.