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154 Cecil Allarton HADLEY (1877-1967) (Elected 24.11.30; resigned 4.6.1934.) Electrical engineer.
He held a senior position with British Electric Welding Machines Ltd (forerunner of ‘British
Federal’) of Castle Mill Works, Dudley from c.1929. He left the club when he transferred his
business from Dudley to Stourbridge, but since British Federal stayed put he must have joined
or set up a different company. He may have started as a consultant in his own name: at 1939
he was described as a welding engineer and at his death as a retired consultant electrical
engineer. The son of a doctor at Aston, Birmingham, he was educated as a boarding student at
Pocklington School in East Yorkshire. He was a pioneer of electrical resistance welding and
obtained numerous patents in the UK and North America. He started as an electrical engineer
back in Birmingham but by 1920 he was with the A.I. Manufacturing Company of Bradford. A.I.
was bought by Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd of Inverness in 1921 so he moved to
Scotland. His patents saved the company and led to its considerable success during World War
II and still today. He moved from Inverness to work in Dudley but lived at West Hagley and then,
from 1936, in Kinver. He was a freemason, member of Dudley Castle Lodge.

155 Ernest James NUTT (1879-1956) (Elected 29.12.1930; resigned 27.2.1939.) Railway Goods
Traffic Agent. Goods Agent for the Great West Railway based at the Goods Department, Blowers
Green station, Shaw Road, Dudley. He grew up in Heath Town, Wolverhampton and started
work at the age of 14 (on an annual salary of £20) as a junior clerk at the GWR Walsall goods
department. In 1904 he transferred to the District office in Birmingham (starting at £90 per
year), and by about 1918 was Chief Clerk at the Lye goods department (at £140 per year). From
there he took charge of the Dudley depot about 1925 and appears to have retired in 1939 at the
same time as he left the Rotary club.

156 Thomas William MOULE (1901-1972) (Elected 26.1.1931; Club Secretary up to June 1933; left
c.1936 but rejoined 1946-48 - see #283.) Tyre Dealer. Proprietor of
Moule’s Worcestershire Tyre Co. of King Street, Dudley and School
Street, Wolverhampton, which he took over from his father Thomas
William Moule senior. In April 1935 he asked for his classification to be
changed to Dietician, but this was rejected because there was no
appropriate classification in the RIBI list. Thomas junior gave up tyres to
become a celebrated nutritionist, naturopath, author of numerous
health books, and a founder member of the General Council and
Register of Naturopaths. At first he called himself a ‘Health Consultant
- Mind & Nerve Specialist’ and ‘ND’, Doctor of Naturopathy, but it is not known where he studied
for this ‘degree’. He became an assistant at Champneys, the celebrated Nature Cure Resort at
Tring, Hertfordshire and in 1957 became its Director in succession to the founder Stanley Lief.
He was born and for many years lived in Wolverhampton but died 15 March 1972 in Oxford. He
was a long-time vegetarian and at Rotary lunches ate only fruit.

157 Cyril Joseph MATTHEWS (1885-1940) (Elected 26.1.1931; resigned
24.9.1934.) Paper merchant. Director of George Wilton & Co Ltd of 119
High Street, Queens Cross, Dudley, Wholesale Paper & Paper Bag
Merchants, like his son Dennis who joined the club in 1949 (member #311).
In his younger days he had been a lawyer’s clerk and a commercial traveller
for a wholesale chemist. He was a Conservative member of Dudley council
for Woodside ward from 1933 until his early death. As chairman of the
Public Assistance Committee he was responsible for radical changes to the
old Poor Law system and introduction of a new system for helping the local
poor and needy. He was an active member of St Edmund’s Church.