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Peter
Cronin, 1923-2003
CHSOB RFC
wishes to express its sadness at the death of Peter Cronin on Thursday
16th January 2003. He was aged 80. Peter was a stalwart of the club who
was still playing competitive rugby at the age of 60. All three CHSOB
rugby sides observed a minutes silence in his memory before the matches
played on 18th January 2003.
Peter Cronin
joined the club in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, and played for
another fifteen seasons. He then joined our running club and continued
his sporting endeavours running marathons and half-marathons until the
last twelve months of his life.
A school
teacher who had taught in Cardiff for most of his career and could
number a multitude of famous sporting personalities who had benefited
from his advice - Billy Boston, Jim Mills, Terry Holmes and Wally
Blackmore are a few.
We as a club
will miss Peter enormously. He was a keen tourist who made friends
around the world, and his popularity in America was tremendous. He was
also a very generous man, and often a set of kit or equipment would
arrive or some work would be done to the clubhouse, paid for by Mr
Anonymous.
Most of
Peter's rugby was played for Cathays HSOB, and it was a grand
co-incidence that the clubs he was associated with were playing the
Saturday after he died.
Peter's
Funeral will be held on Monday 27th January 2003. Service 11:00 a.m. at
Llandaff Cathedral, followed by cremation at Thornhill Crematorium and a
wake at CHSOB RFC.
John Owen,
January 2003
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