Since
the Club was founded in 1909 there have been 50 Presidents.
Martin Harbottle became our 50th President in 2020 & will also
be our President in 2021. Eileen Mills became our first
Lady President in 2004/05.
Of
our current members the following have held the honour of being
President at Epsom Bowling Club.
Roy
Ward 1992/95, Clive Banderet 1996/97, George Sperring 2000/01,
Eileen Mills 2004/05, Cyril Newman 2006/07, Tony Jackman
2008/09, Derek Hoffmann 2012/14, Anne Hoffmann 2018/19 & Martin Harbottle 2020/21.
Roy
Ward also had the honour of being Surrey County Bowling
Association President in 1999 & Martin Harbottle will be the
Surrey President in 2022.
We
have a famous president - Lord Rosebery, but our very first
President was a Frank Harry Trower. The following advert has
been found re what Frank did. He owned this business
in Epsom.

A few
years ago the Club was contacted by Mr Trower's great grandson -
Steve Bacon (from Cumbria)
The 3 Pictures below are of Frank taken around 1909. (Many thanks to Steve
for permission to use these photographs)
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