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165 Rev. Tom Fleming KINLOCH (1874-1953) (Associate member elected
28.12.1931; resigned 3.7.1933.) Presbyterian Minister at the Trinity
Presbyterian Church, Wolverhampton Street, Dudley from 1931 to 1936.
He was born and raised in Cardiff, the son of a draper, but attended
Glasgow University where he graduated with an MA degree. He was a
noted preacher even before he was ordained in about 1898. His first
church was Great Salkeld near Penrith, followed after a year or so at
Heaton Moor, between Stockport and Manchester. Then for 26 years
from 1901 he was the minister at the Presbyterian Church, Merridale
Road, Wolverhampton. He then had brief periods at Newport, Shropshire and Cricklewood,
London before coming to Dudley for five years after which he returned to Wolverhampton. He
was the author of numerous books and essays on religious and historical topics and, as Adviser
in Religious Knowledge to Wolverhampton Council, prepared teaching notes on the school
syllabus for religious instruction.

166 Horace Nelson WOODARD, MBE (1895-1985) (Elected 1.2.1932; President 1938-39; transferred
to the newly formed Tipton Rotary Club c.3.1945 as a founder member; eventually President at
Tipton.) Municipal Engineering. He was Surveyor to Tipton Urban District and Tipton Municipal
Borough for over 30 years, from about 1926 to 1960. (Tipton became a borough in 1938.) He
received an MBE in 1954 for his role as Local Fuel Overseer for the borough, a post that made
him responsible for the operations of fuel retailers and coal mines. Although born in Ewell,
Surrey his family moved to Leicester, Bradford and Paignton before he started work as a
surveyor’s apprentice in Paignton at the age of only 14 or 15. By 1915, when he joined the Royal
Engineers for the duration of the War, he was living in Stourbridge and was a surveyor in the
Stourbridge Borough Surveyor’s office. He served as a Sapper in France from May 1916.

167 Frank Henry Albert GITTINS (1883-1967) (Inducted 13.65.1932; left mid-1964 on retiring.)
Chartered Accountant. Partner in the practice of Percy & Gittins, Priory Street, Dudley from
before 1923 and an experienced insolvency practitioner. His practice must have been
prosperous because during the 1920s and 30s he took numerous first class sea cruises around
the Mediterranean, to the Azores, and the Far East. Although raised in Dudley, the son of a
Dudley wholesale confectioner and general dealer, he was actually born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. After leaving school he was articled to Dudley accountant A E Perry and qualified
as a chartered accountant in 1907. He lived in St James’s Road, Dudley for many years but
moved to Bearwood, Birmingham in 1947 and retired to Torquay in about 1964.

168 Dr Reginald NORTON-BULLOCK (1894-1988) (Elected 25.7.1932; resigned 21.6.1935.) General
medical practitioner. He set up practice on his own account in Dudley Road, Tipton after
qualifying in medicine and surgery in 1924 at Birmingham University. The surgery moved to
Birmingham New Road Tipton in 1959 where he remained until retiring to Ealing, West London
about 1964. He grew up in Wednesbury, attended Queen Mary’s Grammar School at Walsall,
then appears to have studied in London because, in 1916 he joined the South Staffordshire
Regiment from the Inns of Court Officers’ Training Corps. (This suggests he was originally
studying for the legal profession.) He was wounded in action in 1917, and then transferred to
the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force with the rank of Lieutenant, starting as an observer and
soon becoming a pilot (‘Aeroplane Officer’).