Graham Watts Rest In Peace

Posted 9th January 2021

Graham Watts passed away earlier this week , he will be sorely missed . Graham was a big character and did an awful lot of work behind the scenes at the Old Wilsonians . He has been a stalwart of the cricket club for over 30 years . He joined the club when he joined his late brother Bryan & 90 others on our first cricket tour of Barbados , he enjoyed the crac . He became 2nd XI scorer that tour although had no idea how to score , that was Graham . The deal was done over a number of rum & cokes , it involved 5 of us running in the marathon & him learning to score . From then on Graham threw himself into the club , he has been 2nd XI scorer ever since . . Graham was an organiser and ran a number of Presidents Ladies Night, OWA Dinners with his brother Bryan & my old man . He also helped raise funds by getting the club involved in events he was involved with such as The London Marathon handing out water , Dulwich horse show putting up fences& the Womens London run .Also for the last decade he has run the 200 club & super club draws for the club . His passion though was the cricket club he would be seen late into a saturday night inputting scores from various home matches & then join us for a diet coke & a laugh. Graham became our first ever club captain in thanks for all his hard work , also he was a great listener , with sound judgement & that will be missed greatly  

Many years ago I worked for Graham at Southwark council where he ran the entertainment division , where he acted as matchmaker to Debbie and me . 

We will miss Graham me more than most 

Rest in peace Wattsy

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