The Rotary Club of Kenilworth said “good bye” in October 2002 to one of its longest serving members whose service to the Club included nineteen years as secretary - a record unlikely to be broken.
Born in Wolverhampton Rupert Davis was educated at Rugeley Grammar School before, at sixteen, following his father into Lloyds Bank. He worked in several branches in the Midlands becoming manager in Cannock where he first became a Rotarian. He joined the Kenilworth Club in July 1969 when he moved to the managership of the Gosford Green branch in Coventry.
Beside his secretaryship of the Club he was for twenty five years clerk to the organisers of our Annual Art Exhibition, writing innumerable letters and keeping the register of pictures entered in a hand which remained neat and meticulous right up to a year before his ninetieth birthday.
Rupert was a founder member of Probus in Kenilworth and its first treasurer, thus taking on the work he had already done for fifteen other organisations at one time or another. This was Rupert, a quiet man, meticulous, capable and ever willing to offer help when required.
