Richard Bourne (1943-2007)

Richard was a Fives player for over 40 years and loved every minute on and off the court. The game created many great friends and he treasured their company and mutual joie de vivre over the years.

Dick Borradaile (1922-2005)

Dick Borradaile, who has died at the age of 84, was the master in-charge of Fives at Wellington College, where for nearly three decades he encouraged the game against all odds from the pressures of other sports.

Tommy Garnett (1915-2006)

Tommy Garnett, who has died at the age of 91, was Kinnaird champion with fellow Carthusian, A J Wreford-Brown in 1949. Both returned to Charterhouse to teach and both were mentors to the legendary May brothers, themselves Kinnaird winners in 1951, 52 and 53 and who were never defeated.

Lord Aberconway (1913-2003)

Charles Aberconway died at the beginning of February, just a few months short of his 90th birthday. This is not a full obituary; that appeared in the Times. Rather I have attempted here to give a rather more personal view of someone with whom I sat on the committee of the Old Etonian Fives Club for over 50 years and came to greatly respect and admire.

Dennis Hulbert

This obituary first appeared in the Fives Federation Annual Review 2006/07

Philip Curtis (1922-2002)

It is difficult to do full justice to the unstinting services given to Eton Fives by Philip Curtis, who has died at the age of 80. In 1999, a dinner was held at Eton in his honour to celebrate fifty continuous years as an EFA officer. Starting as Honorary Treasurer, Philip then became Honorary Secretary, a Vice-President, President and then Chairman of the EFA Charitable Trust. The latter position was probably the most demanding in establishing the Trust in the first place, let alone overseeing the raising of substantial funds and guiding fellow Trustees and the EFA in the best use of the monies for the benefit of the game.

Richard Tildesley

This obituary appeared in the Fives Federation Annual Report 2005/06

Garth Wheatley in the Uppingham Fives team of 1941

Garth Wheatley

(extract from the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 2001/02)

Garth Wheatley was known as an Uppinghamian legend. As Master-in-Charge of Fives for countless years he once confirmed his details for the EFA Annual Report with the comment, 'life sentence'.

Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie OBE (1933-2006)

This article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 2005/06

Tom Manning (back row, far right) with the 1959 CLS Fives team

Tom Manning

(extract from the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 2001/02)

Tom Manning has been one of Eton Fives' unsung heroes and a wonderful man of hidden depths that were not common knowledge, mainly through his own sheer modesty.