Over the years, bridge-playing friends and associates have come and gone.  Some in the latter category, alas, permanently.  We had our disagreements - who does not when playing cards? - but my gratitude persists for all of them.  Some were important elements in my life away from the bridge table, others simply represented enjoyable times spent relaxing together, but all have earned their place in my memory and are being memorialised here.  Where they were involved with me in other areas of activity I have provided links.

Paula Alderton

Mike Baynes

Cedric Cohen

Mona Eldridge (aka Mona Yung-Ning Hoo)

Mona is of Chinese origin.  Her father was a Chinese diplomat attached to both the League of Nations in the 1930s and the United Nations post WWII.   She was for several years personal assistant to heiress Barbara Hutton and published a successful book based on the romance between Ms Hutton and the actor Cary Grant (In Search of a Prince).  Subsequently she published a biography of her father entitled Painting The Shadows.

Bernard Levin

Mimi Lipton

Peter Lipton

Sasha Lyons

Hugh Manning

George Marlow

Lionel Posner

Freddie Monblatt

Tony Shepherd

Tony always played policemen.  Information Received the movie and the TV series Dial 999 and White Hunter were the shows with which he was mainly associated in the late 1950s early 1960s.

Bruce Sherman

David Winton