Reference is made in a recent article to the Law Society Rugby Club in the inter-war years and then the same being reformed in the 1970s (see [2005] Gazette, 4 August, 22).

I am unable to speak of either the inter-war years or the 1970s but can say that the Law Society Rugby Club was re-constituted in 1964. I was at that time an articled clerk.


At some stage (and I cannot recollect who was the instigator) a notice appeared and it transpired that the Law Society Rugby Club was in existence and that the president was one Brendan Quirke, a solicitor practising in Chancery Lane and the captain was a Paddy McLoughlin.


Our training was haphazard (if not minimal) although we played a considerable number of games.


I can recollect playing against RMA Sandhurst and while I can remember our first win I can remember little of the aftermath because of the substantial generosity of Brendan Quirke in the post-match celebrations.


We also toured in the Easter of 1965 to Cornwall where one of our number swam from the hotel round to St Ives itself.


The shirts that we wore were black with a white square over the left breast where there was a pink ass echoing the views expressed by Mr Bumble.


I regret I have no photographs or memorabilia from that time and having thought that the Law Society Rugby Club was no longer in existence, I wish it every success for its amateur future and particularly the tours, which I am sure are held in exactly the same spirit as they were in 1965.


Tony Thomas, Thomas & Co, Birmingham