Charm, integrity, energy
Robert Fleming provides an obituary on Mike Thomas who died in August aged 81
Robert Fleming
29-Dec-2005
Mike Thomas, former honorary secretary of The Primary Club, died on August 29 in the Princess Royal Hospital, Bromley, after a short illness. He was 81.
Mike played for many years for the Beckenham 1st X1. He was captain when the 15-year-old Derek Underwood, now Primary Club patron, played his first game for the club. He became president of both Beckenham cricket and rugby clubs and a vice-president of the Jolly Rogers CC.
In 1985 Mike became honorary secretary of The Primary Club, the cricketers' charity for the blind, and ran it very successfully with his wife Tonie until 1996. Mike was a man of total integrity, great charm and inexhaustible energy, who contributed hugely to every club or organisation with which he was involved. Primary Club members will miss him, as will visually-impaired sportsmen, women and children throughout the UK.