London Dinner 2011

Great news! – after last years highly successful return to The Savoy the London Dinner will again be held there and as ever we can be sure of a warm welcome.

The dinner will be held on Wednesday 7th December 2011. The Chairman for the occasion is Jonathan Dickins (CURUFC, Corpus Christi 1971-74)

The Guest of Honour will be Ian Peck (Magdalene, Captain of CURUFC and CUCC)

Ian Peck was an outstanding schoolboy sportsman at Bedford for cricket, rugby and fives. His batting stats (almost 1200 runs in the school season) were only marginally improved on by one Alastair Cook who seems to be a reasonable player himself. His sporting success was repeated at Cambridge where he won Blues at rugby and cricket from 1979-1981. Even more unusually, he captained both cricket and rugby sides, whilst occasionally wrestling with the Land Economy curriculum.

Outside Cambridge, his rugby career took him to the edge of the England Grand Slam side of 1980, without being able to ease Steve Smith off the pitch. He played Club rugby at Bedford and represented the Barbarians on numerous occasions as well as Midlands Division. He remains a member of The Penguin International touring club.

Not wishing to waste the summer months he played County cricket regularly for Northamptonshire before then moving into the Minor Counties with Bedfordshire.

He is a Chartered Surveyor and Partner with Bidwells in Milton Keynes, which just goes to show how important the Land Economy faculty was. He is married to Sally and has three sons. He has been a long-standing Treasurer and remains a Committee member of CURUFC.

Following on from last year our thanks to Cobra Beer for their continued sponsorship

Online booking is available click here

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