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Doctor of Letters in 1940. The following year he was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological
Society. He was a prominent music composer, educator and researcher, and prolific author of
books and learned papers about the psychology of teaching and learning music. But his interests
extended to other subjects: he wrote several historical books including the two-volume work
Man in his World: A Course in History and Geography, which went through four editions, and An
Introduction to the study of Map Projection. He was closely involved in the Arts in Dudley and
around the Black Country: conductor of Dudley Orchestral Society from 1938; founder of Dudley
Choral Society in 1945 and its first musical director; President of Dudley Literary Society in 1950;
Chairman of Dudley Arts Club from 1951; and Musical Director of Stourbridge Operatic Society
for many years. In retirement he moved from St James’s Road Dudley to Torquay.

267 Dr Alfred William WESTON, JP (1893-1960) (Inducted 5.2.1945; left
c.Feb.1954 on leaving the district.) Medicine - General Medical Practice.
A well-known physician and surgeon, he established a surgery at Ednam
Lodge, St James’s Road, Dudley in 1919. In 1933 he was joined in
partnership by Dr George Lewis (club member #250) and in 1947 by Dr
John Browne. He retired from the practice ‘Weston, Lewis and Browne’
at the end of 1953 and moved to Henley on Thames where he continued
to practise. However in 1956 he became a surgeon on a troopship and it
was just days after returning from one such voyage to Hong Kong in 1960
that he became ill and died at Guy’s Hospital.
He was born in Liverpool and brought up in Birkenhead, the son of the Peruvian Vice-Consul
and an Irish mother. He graduated in medicine from Liverpool University in 1914, just as the
Great War broke out, and immediately joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. Three years later,
with the rank of Captain, he married a French girl. At the end of the War he practised briefly in
Birkenhead before coming to Dudley. In Dudley he was Honorary Physician and member of the
Management Committee of Dudley Guest Hospital until nationalisation after which he served
on the District Hospital Board and local NHS Executive Council. He was very active in the British
Medical Association and honorary secretary of the Dudley Division. He was a vociferous member
of Dudley Council for 20 years from 1934, a long-time chairman of the Health Committee, and
elected an Alderman from 1949. He was appointed a magistrate in 1951.

268 Rev. Canon John WARING, MA (1890-1967) (Elected c.4.1945 having transferred from
Rotherham Rotary Club and previously a member and President 1937-38 of
Nottingham Rotary Club; left 1951.) Vicar and Rural Dean of Dudley from
March 1945 and also Honorary Canon of Worcester Cathedral from
Oct.1946. He left to become Residentiary Canon of Norwich Cathedral
from June 1951 and remained there until his death in 1967. He was born
in Lisburn, near Belfast, Northern Ireland but studied theology at Trinity
College Dublin. After graduating in 1913 he served as Curate at two
churches in Dublin and another in Belfast before becoming Organising
Secretary of the Church Missionary Society for Ulster from 1917 to 1922.
He held a similar post with Sarum and Winchester Diocese from 1922-26, then served as
Metropolitan Secretary for London and Southwark diocese 1926-28, and Secretary of the
London Mission of Service 1928-29. He became Vicar of St Andrews church, Nottingham in 1929
and also Canon of Southwell Cathedral from 1936, then Rural Dean and Vicar of All Saints,
Rotherham and Canon Residentiary of Sheffield in 1939, before coming to Dudley. He was
renowned for his ‘outspoken and forthright’ sermons.

269 Herman Geldert SMITH (Herman Smith Junr) (1904-85) (Inducted 30.4.1944; left 1978/79.) His
original classification was ‘Fireplace Fixtures’. Managing Director of Herman Smith Ltd,
manufacturers of precision sheet metal fabrications at the Reliance Works, King Street, Dudley;