Brian Greenwood

1933–2022

Brian passed away peacefully at home on 5th September 2022.

Mike Powell’s thoughts are as follows:-

“I partnered Brian for about 10 years. He was a very likeable man, not afraid to show his point of view, but always a gentleman at the bridge table. We had reasonable success as a partnership, getting our names on Bristol Bridge Club’s Honours Board and in 2007, our biggest achievement, winning the Swiss Pairs at the Wiltshire  Congress. I know he’ll be fondly remembered by many bridge players.”

Patrick Cartwright

1932–2022

A bridge player for most of his life, Patrick passed away peacefully on 9th April four months short of his 90th birthday.

We all remember his signatory phrase when asked how he was. “Still alive” was his reply in an upbeat manner.

Patrick started playing bridge over 60 years ago at Reading Bridge Club. He retired following a career with British Railways and moved to Yatton, playing bridge at Nailsea and Winscombe Clubs and, more recently, at Kingston Seymour.

Patrick, the perfect gentleman, the experienced bridge player, the good natured lovely person, will fondly be remembered by us all.

Contributed by: John Cockram

Robin Belcher

1941–2020

Jennifer Kinloch

1939.2020

Jennifer had a very bubbly personality. A person who could make others smile - a wonderful gift.  She loved to travel and to meet interesting people from different countries and different walks of life. She was a bit of a rebel at heart and refused to grow older gracefully!  She adored clothes and not surprisingly always dressed immaculately. Her husband apparently bought a local clothes shop for her to manage, as it was cheaper than providing her with a clothes budget!

Jennifer lived in Scotland but became an easyJet commuter from Glasgow to Bristol after we met on a bridge holiday. She was a popular member of her local Helensburgh bridge club as well as at Nailsea. She would always stay for a drink and chat after a bridge evening, often telling amusing stories, quite often at my expense! She was not the best of bridge students, much preferring the social aspects of the game rather than any technicalities! But her standard impoved immensely over the 8 years I was lucky to be with her. In the year before she died she won her local club's top event playing with her Scottish partner, a feat she had never got near to achieving over the previous three decades.

Outside of bridge, Jennifer loved sport particularly golf. She captained her ladies county team and provided unstinting support to all of her sporting children, particularly to one of her daughters, driving all over Britain as she developed into a top lady professional golfer.

Jennifer remained incredibly positive throughout her short tragic illness. Fortunately, even though the COVID lockdown had made international travel very difficult, all of her children were able to get permits to travel back to Scotland before she died. Jennifer died peacefully at home with her loved ones as she had wanted.

Michael Whittaker

Isobel Connor

1948–2019

Iris Broom

1927–2018

John Smithson

1934–2016

Bob Baker

1953–2016

Lindsay Hewson

1949–2015

I first met Lindsay in the early part of 1983. Both of us had just moved to Clevedon with our young families, and our wives met each other at a local nursery. They soon found out both of their respective husbands had played bridge at University, and the rest is history.  

Our club bridge evening was a welcome distraction from the pressures of our jobs, and our hectic family lives with young children. After taking over six months just to finish in the top half of the field on a club night at Nailsea, we quickly improved and were encouraged to take part in county competitions at weekends. But with young families this was not really possible until the children got older, so this step forward in our bridge lives was delayed until the early 1990s. Surprisingly we had some early successes at county level.

Lindsay was a competent bridge player but his true passion was wine. Nothing would please Lindsay more than to provide the wine for a meal he was invited to or for the picnics we occasionally had during a bridge break at an all-day competition. And my goodness we knew we would be in for a treat. He loved nothing more than to see his friends and colleagues enjoy his wine, and show interest in it. His knowledge was amazing. and his enthusiasm and passion were clear to see. 

Bridge is a partnership game and at times can be a bit like some marriages. Some partnerships seem to relish in disagreeing with each other!  Competitive bridge can at times unhinge otherwise gentle folk, but Lindsay’s approach and behaviour were exemplary, never criticising his partner nor relishing in others' errors. He was, and remains to all who knew him, a fine example of the well known adage  “Ask not whether he won or lost, but how he played the game”.

Lindsay was a true gentleman and will be greatly missed by myself and the Somerset bridge community.

Michael Whittaker 

Sue Griffin

1937–2013

Judy Belcher

1946–2011

Yvonne Morgan

d. 2009

Lilian Baker

1917–2004

Reg Morgan

d. 1985

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