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History - Presidents and Chairmen
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In 1922, the Honorable E L Mostyn, to become Lord Mostyn, was appointed President of the ISDS. He held this position until 1962. It is reasonable to consider that James Reid had much to do with encouraging the involvement of Lord Mostyn, and the inclusion of the nation of Wales in 1922, for this created a much more significant Society. That partnership of President and Secretary must have been good for it to have held together for so many years. It certainly brought the Society through the next period of war, and into its second 50 years. Lord Mostyn and James Reid were truly the second generation of founders of the ISDS.
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| (l to r) Archie Mc Dairmid and Frank Tarn as Course Directors in the days before they themselvs assumed the role of Chairman, and Ashton Priestley in 1962 |
| It was a watershed in 1960 when the Directors, empowered by a newly published ISDS Constitution, voted for the appointment of a Chairman. Although Lord Mostyn continued as President for a further two years, annual meetings were now taken by a Chairman. The first in this post was the same Captain T M Whittaker of Criccieth who had accompanied Lord Mostyn on his vist to Scotland in 1922. From 1963, when Lord Mostyn resigned from office, the position of President became an annual, honorary award made to someone from the country holding the International, initially to one of the Vice-Presidents. The President’s power had gone. |
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(l to r) Phil Drabble, Ray Ollerenshaw and Eric Halsall
In Chatsworth in 1984 for One Man & His Dog
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| Captain Whittaker died in 1962 and the Society entered a new era with the election of ruling Chairmen for three-year periods. Willie Bagshaw of Blyth, Worksop was elected in 1962; then in 1968 it was Archie McDiarmid of Gourock, Renfrewshire; in 1974 Frank Tarn of Brancepeth, County Durham; in 1976 Ray Ollerenshaw of Derwent, Cumberland; in 1988 Norman Seamark of Bedford; and in 1998 Jim Easton of Alnwick, Northumberland. Each Chairman has brought something of his character to the task, and added to the history of the Society. |
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