My Dad, so... thanks. He'd been ill for quite a while and hadn't been able to make it down to The Valley. But he still listened to matches on CAFC Player until a few weeks ago: he had been enjoying this season as you can imagine!
He grew up on the New Cross Road and was a regular in his younger days (and was still when he took me as a kid to a lot of home games in the late seventies / early eighties). In fact, I never knew till we were talking as a family this weekend that his Dad took to his first match aged TWO http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/12/lord-wedderburn-of-charlton
My Dad, so... thanks. He'd been ill for quite a while and hadn't been able to make it down to The Valley. But he still listened to matches on CAFC Player until a few weeks ago: he had been enjoying this season as you can imagine!
He grew up on the New Cross Road and was a regular in his younger days (and was still when he took me as a kid to a lot of home games in the late seventies / early eighties). In fact, I never knew till we were talking as a family this weekend that his Dad took to his first match aged TWO http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/12/lord-wedderburn-of-charlton
A fine man - you must be very proud Jon. My sympathies are with you and your family.
In the employment law world, Lord Wedderburn is one of those doyens that everyone has heard of. I never knew until yesterday though that the "of Charlton" was due to the fact that he was a fan - I always assumed that it was simply where he was born, and even then I assumed that it wouldn't be SE7 but a different Charlton somewhere else in the country. RIP and my condolences jonwed.
Jonwed, your dad was obviously a very special man. I hope that as with my own dad you will be able to treat his wake as a celebration of a wonderful life. RIP.
I became politically aware as I reached the end of my school years in the early/mid-eighties and knew of your dad as a great leader and thinker in labour law and the protection of workers rights. I hadn't connected him with our club, but lovely that he carried his own father's tradition by bringing you along as well. He very obviously was a man with a life well lived. Rest in Peace.
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http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters/lord_wedderburn
A life well lived
He grew up on the New Cross Road and was a regular in his younger days (and was still when he took me as a kid to a lot of home games in the late seventies / early eighties). In fact, I never knew till we were talking as a family this weekend that his Dad took to his first match aged TWO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/12/lord-wedderburn-of-charlton
My sympathies are with you and your family.
I see he went to Whitgift, the school where John Humphrey teaches (or teached).
RIP.
My sympathies and best wishes to you, Jon, and your family.
RIP.
And my condolences too jonwed.
RIP.
I became politically aware as I reached the end of my school years in the early/mid-eighties and knew of your dad as a great leader and thinker in labour law and the protection of workers rights. I hadn't connected him with our club, but lovely that he carried his own father's tradition by bringing you along as well. He very obviously was a man with a life well lived. Rest in Peace.