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540 John Burton WATERFIELD (1934-2018) (Inducted 6.4.1992; died 18.1.2018
whilst still a member.) Accounting service. Principal of the accountancy
practice Poole Waterfield of Priory House, Dudley (the historic former
Junior Conservative Club building). He was born in West Bromwich, son of
a shopkeeper, but at the age of 4 his family moved to Sedgley because of
John’s poor health. He attended Queen Victoria school in Sedgley, a Board
school in Upper Gornal, then Dormston School Sedgley and the County
Commercial College, Wednesbury, before getting a job in Dudley in 1952
with accountants Buckler Son & Co. of Priory Road. He was articled to
Buckler for 7 years ‘at a very very low salary’ but eventually passed the
accountancy final examinations. In 1958 he joined R T Poole & Co. of High Street, Dudley and
after 18 months was made a partner. When Ron Poole died in 1983 John became sole proprietor
of the practice. John continued to lead the firm with the assistance of various family members
up to his death. He learned to fly when he was 40, owned four aircraft in turn, and only gave up
flying at the age of 81. He also liked driving his collection of classic and sports cars, including
Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Porsche and BMW cars. He was a mason, past Worshipful Master of
Regis Masonic Lodge.

541 Torbjørn (‘Toby’) ANDERSEN (1946- ) (Inducted 18.5.1992; left in 1993/94.) Physiotherapy.
Chartered physiotherapist with his own private practice, Dudley Physiotherapy Clinic, in Parsons
Street, Dudley. In addition to the usual range of conditions requiring physiotherapy, he and his
practitioners specialise in sport-related injuries. He is Norwegian, born at
Skien south of Oslo. From school he opted to study physiotherapy at the
Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. He was already a keen sportsman and
had gained football coaching qualifications back home so he requested a
final-year work experience placement with Wolverhampton Wanderers.
He worked part-time at the Royal (and married a nurse from the hospital)
until he was appointed to take over as Wolves’ club physiotherapist at the
end of 1970. He was with Wolves during several highly successful years.
He travelled the world with the team and even served as assistant
manager on the Australia and New Zealand legs of the mammoth 1972 end-of-season tour that
also took in the United States. Immediately after the Wolves’ 1974 League Cup final victory over
Manchester City he returned to Norway where he was the physio to various football and
handball teams and specialised in manipulative therapy and winter-sports injuries. After 4 or 5
years he came back again to set up a physiotherapy clinic in Dudley. At about the same time
Wolverhampton Wanderers was having problems replacing their physiotherapist so Toby was
re-engaged for a part-time second spell. He continued as head of the Dudley clinic until retiring
in November 2018. He was voted Physiotherapist of the Year in 1991 by the Nationwide
Physiotherapy Service, and in 1996 was awarded the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine’s
Saunders Prize. He lived at Pedmore but is now at Upper Arley near Bewdley.

542 Major Philip W WILBRAHAM (1941- ) (Joined during 1992/93; left in
1995/96.) Salvation Army Officer (Minister). Jointly with his wife May, he
was officer in charge of Dudley Salvation Army Corps. He came to Dudley
from Sunderland where he was already a member of the Rotary Club.
Although a native of Macclesfield, as a Salvation Army officer he was
posted in 1967 to the newly formed Drumchapel Corps in Glasgow, and
then to Bridgeton, Glasgow about 1970 and Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, a
few years later. After Dudley he was posted to Bedlington,
Northumberland, then to Shildon near Bishop Auckland, County Durham
in 2002, to Harrogate a year later, before retiring to Norfolk in 2006. He remains active in the
Norwich Citadel Corps. His home is in the nearby market town of Wymondham.