Organised the York Rally for the twentieth consecutive year.
Since its inception in 1945 the York Rally has grown to be one of the major events in the year’s cycling programme, an event of international significance, universal in its attraction and all embracing in its range of interests.
Through a full score years the prime responsibility for the organisation rested on this one man; a man who by 1945 had already earned the Sir Alfred Bird prize for services to the Cyclists Touring Club, a man whose abiding enthusiasm for cycling has spanned the better part of forty years.
Tourist, photographer, lecturer, spokesman for cycling, honorary secretary of the Hull & East Riding DA for sixteen years, CTC councillor since 1945 and recipient of the Gold Medal of the Alliance International Tourisme in 1963. He has made a sustained and continuous contribution which constitutes an achievement of the first magnitude and a most notable and signal service to cycling.
7th February 1965