{"id":119,"date":"2016-09-28T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:34:38","slug":"former-president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/?page_id=119","title":{"rendered":"Former President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-gv647-dc24a9e08aa44ba014a5d502fe192398\">\n.flex_column.av-gv647-dc24a9e08aa44ba014a5d502fe192398{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-gv647-dc24a9e08aa44ba014a5d502fe192398 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-s7iv-94fbb768c9c58f403e8279cf1c15d4dc '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Guy_Huntrods-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3800\" src=\"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Guy_Huntrods-copy.png\" alt=\"Guy_Huntrods copy\" width=\"425\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a>Guy Huntrods CBE<\/h5>\n<h3><strong>Former President<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sadly our President, Guy Huntrods, died on 17th September 2017 after a short illness. He was greatly loved by everyone in the Choir and he will be much missed not\u00a0least for his infectious enthusiasm and abundant good humour. His funeral was held on Friday October 20th in St John&#8217;s Church, Tunbridge Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Guy was appointed President in 2016 in acknowledgment of his unswerving loyalty and enthusiastic support of the society over many years.\u00a0Guy was born in Cumberland (now Cumbria) in May 1923 but has lived in the Tunbridge Wells area, with spells abroad, since 1937. His first job was for a year as the Junior (\u201cthe lowest form of animal life\u201d as he puts it) in Lloyds Bank on Mount Pleasant. In a quirk of fate he was, 38 years later and after many vicissitudes, to become the Executive Director of Lloyds Bank International, responsible for that Bank\u2019s extensive network of branches and business throughout Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on his 18th birthday \u2013 having served in The Home Guard \u2013 he volunteered as an Ordinary Seaman in the wartime Royal Navy where he attained the rank of Lieutenant, and was at sea in all the main theatres of war including Normandy on D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>After demobilisation in late 1946 he joined the Bank of England \u2013 again in a very junior capacity rising to become an Advisor \u2013 before moving into the private banking sector in 1973 and finally back to Lloyds Bank.<\/p>\n<p>During his time as a Bank of England Official Guy filled many senior roles overseas including that of UK Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC from 1967 to 1970, a r\u00f4le right at the sharp end of the 1967 devaluation of the Pound Sterling. Prior to that he had spent a year in Rio de Janeiro as an Advisor to the Government of Brazil, which later appointed him a Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross. In 1985, in the Civil Division of the Queen&#8217;s Birthday honours, Guy was listed as being awarded the CBE for his services to international banking.<\/p>\n<p>After his retirement in 1985 Guy pursued many new interests amongst which two predominate.<\/p>\n<p>Chartwell \u2013 the former home of his hero Winston Churchill \u2013 where he was well known as an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Volunteer Guide and Room Steward.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, The Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society which he joined, with no previous singing experience, 25 years ago having just started to learn the piano from scratch. Until very recently Guy sang in the Tenor Section and always brought huge enthusiasm, energy and dedication to all our activities including serving for a time on the Executive Committee and until recently as Vice Chairman.\u00a0Guy always said that choral singing had brought him immeasurable pleasure, challenges and\u00a0friendships that had greatly enriched his retirement years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempdomain4.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}