Remembering J C

Thu, Sep 13th 2018 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Mike Griffiths recently reported that Richard Anderson of Reading had sent a silver tankard that his Grandfather had won for a Rotary District Golf Tournament in Wrexham in 1937.

Rotary District Golf Tankard

John C Menzies, known to his friends as J C, was a member of Oswestry Rotary Club and former Secretary-Superintendent at the Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen.

The hospital hold a portrait of J C which is displayed below as appears on https://artuk.org/

We'll look into our records for J C more closely.


John C. Menzies (c.1890–1980), Secretary-Superintendent of The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital

Painted by Frederic Whiting (1874–1962)
Commissioned in 1956
Oil on canvas

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