Branch Contacts
The Conway Club has branches throughout the world established for the furtherance of social contact. They operate as independent organisations and there is no structural, legal or financial linkage between individual branches and/or the Conway Club e.g. the Conway Club Officers and Committee have no management control over branches. Some are “joint” branches with members from Conway, Worcester, Pangbourne (CWP) and General Botha.
Committee
The Club Committee members for 2024 are:
Dai Davies (66-68)
David Fawcitt (67-69)
Nick Hambleton (63-66)
John McCaughrean (50-51)
Tony Minns (62-64)
David Pye (62-64)
Neil Smith (63-65) – IPP
Mike Wild (64-68)
Alfie Windsor (64-68)
Officers
President: John Noble (62-64)
Vice President: Matt Burrow (72-74)
Vice President: Paul Heaver (66-71)
Hon Treasurer: Rob Tubb (67-70)
Hon Secretary: Steve Barnet (65-68)
For more information about your Club’s Officers, Committee members etc, please see the current issue of the CADET.
Honorary Vice Presidents
David Fletcher-Rodgers (44-45)
Haydn Lockwood (46-47)
Tony Braithwaite (47-49)
Honorary Chaplin The Rev. Simon Douglas Lane
Presidents
The first President of the Club was Major Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams GCMG CB (1880-83). He was President for 11 years. After his time in the Ship he went to sea in the clipper Knight of Snowdon.
In 1878, after five years at sea, he came ashore and joined the army as a Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Regiment. His life then became a mirror of empire. In 1884 he was in the Border Police in Bechuanaland and later commanded the British garrison there. In 1893 he was caught up in the conflict with the Matabele and commanded the British forces’ advance from Bulawayo.
He fought and beat the Matabele army at the battle of Sengazi. Joining forces with two other columns, the Matabele were finally defeated and he became Resident Commissioner in Bechuanaland. During the Boer War he commanded the Town Guard in Mafeking throughout the siege. He was nearly killed by shelling twice and one occasion he was buried in the rubble of his office when a shell burst overhead. After the war he became Governor of the Orange River Colony. In 1911 he was made High Commissioner for Cyprus and then Governor of Queensland (1915-1920). He laid the foundation stone for Brisbane City Hall. He service was rewarded with the KCMG, CMG and CB. He was returning to the UK from Queensland when he died of pneumonia in Cape Town on April 12th 1920.
| 2023 to date | John Noble (62-64) |  |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 to 2023 | Captain Neil L Smith RD AFNI 1963-65 |  |
| 2017 to 2018 | Lt Cdr Conrad Blakey OBE RNR RD (56-59) |  |
| 2013 to 2017 | Chris Smith (58-60) |  |
| 2010 to 13 | T Mason Esq (56-59) |  |
| 2006 - 09 | A Smith Esq (64-66) |  |
| 2003 - 05 | Capt DNB Nutman MNI (50-51) |  |
| 2000 - 02 | Commander J W H F Dickie OBE RNZN (39-42) |  |
| 1997 - 99 | J F Sheldrake Esq JP (52-54) |  |
| 1992 - 96 | Captain L J Thompson MNI (39-41) |  |
| 1991 - 92 | Captain A J R Tyrrell (42-43) |  |
| 1986 - 90 | Captain L J Thompson MNI (39-41) | |
| 1983 - 85 | Commander T Kinloch-Jones RN (24-26) | |
| 1973 - 82 | Captain D T Smith OBE RN (42-44) |  |
| 1969 - 72 | Captain E Hewitt RD RNR (19-21) |  |
| 1959 - 69 | Captain W H Coombes CBE, RNR (Hon) (07-09) |  |
| 1949 - 58 | Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard E C Peirse KCB, DSO, AFC (05-07) |  |
| 1941 - 48 | Captain SS Richardson OBE, RD, RNR (1891-93) |  |
| 1935 - 40 | Captain Sir Horace Edward Headlam CSI, CMG, DSO, FRGS, RIM (1879-81) |  |
| 1930 - 34 | John Masefield OM, LL.D (1891-94) |  |
| 1921 - 30 | Admiral Sir Sackville H Carden KCMG (1869-70) |  |
| 1910 - 20 | Major Sir Hamilton Goold Adams GCB (1871-73) |  |