Another Lord's Taverners Legends night has come and gone - the 10th since the inception of this wonderful event - attended by 100 members and guests at Royal South Yarra Tennis Club. Our president, Paul Sheahan, inducting the late, great Bill Ponsford, arguably the second greatest Australian batsman of all time, spoke eloquently about "Ponnie's" extraordinary feats and presented a framed certificate to his son, Geoff, on behalf of his father. Paul told an enthralled audience that Geoff…

It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Greg Brown, on receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the recent Queen's Birthday Honours. Greg has been a member of the Lord's Taverner's since 1985, he has been the National Chair of the Lord’s Taverners Australia since 2008 and was the Victorian Chair between 2005 and 2007.

Greg was awarded his OAM for service to the community through support and fundraising roles for a range of charitable organisations.

On behalf…

Sheila Scotter AM MBE, alias Lord's Taverners number 79, died on Good Friday, aged 91.

In his enthralling eulogy, Alan Jones described her death as marking the end of the Australian fashion industry's most historic era.

Lawrence Money, in a more jocular tribute, highlighted Sheila's passion for cricket

From the Lord's Taverners perspective, the circa 1982 chairman took his courage in both hands and invited Sheila (more or less sight unseen) to serve on the committee from…

It is with much sadness that we farewell one of our Legends of Victorian Cricket in Sam Loxton who passed away in Queensland at the age of 90.  Much has been written about Sam Loxton and this article from Jim Morton at The Sydney Morning Herald says much about Sam Loxton, the man, and the enormous contribution to Australian Cricket. 

The Lord’s Taverners in…

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4 November 2011

Australian team for players with an intellectual disability announced

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Bill Jacobs passed away on Friday July 29, 2011, aged 93.

He played 266 consecutive club matches for Fitzroy Cricket Club between 1937 and 1956 coming from the Brunswick Cricket Club. He claimed 448 dismissals, as a wicketkeeper, and was captain/coach of their 1953/54 premiership team, having played in two earlier grand final victories.

He also played football; in the then VFA, with Brunswick.

An outstanding administrator,…

A BILL WOODFULL biography, available from Ken Piesse of the ACS



There is to soon be available in Melbourne a limited-edition biography of Australia's Bodyline captain Bill Woodfull entitled WOODFULL, GENTLEMAN & SCHOLAR by Dr Alan Gregory, produced by the Melbourne High School Old Boys (Woodfull having been headmaster of the school for almost two decades after the War).



It is a paperback and 250-plus pages. The print run is strictly 500. It is a fascinating…