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The BIG lunch 2019

The BIG lunch 2019

User 319561216 May 2019 - 10:00
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In its third year, combining fabulous food wonderful wine beautiful beer charming company & superb speakers this promises to be our best event to date

Nicholas William "Nick" Leeson was born on the 25 February 1967 in Watford, where he attended Parmiter's School. After finishing school in 1985 his first job was as a clerk with a private bank, Coutts. He then moved to Morgan Stanley in 1987 for two years, and then to Barings in 1989
Nick is a former English derivatives broker famous for bringing down Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest merchant bank, into bankruptcy. A rogue trader who made fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative moves, his actions led directly to the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank, for which he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment.

Janice (Jan) Meek - personal motto - 'not why - why not' .. (maiden name Janice Cooper, first married name Janice Byles) FRGS (British, born 1944) is a Guinness World Record holding adventurer, ocean rower, international motivational speaker polar racer and explorer
In 1997 she took part in the first ever Atlantic Rowing Race, the Port St Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race, successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in 23-foot (7.0 m) wooden rowing boat in 101 days with her son Daniel Byles. A decade later in 2007, she and her son were united in adventure once again when, together with Richard Profit, they successfully walked and skied 350 miles (560 km) from Resolute, Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours.

She currently holds four Guinness World Records.

Our compere Ian Robertson (born 17 January 1945) is a Scottish broadcaster, writer and former international rugby player. He is best known as a rugby union commentator for BBC Radio.
Robertson was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, Aberdeen University and Christ's College, Cambridge. He worked for four years as an English teacher at Fettes College, where his most famous pupil was Tony Blair.
Robertson played rugby union for Cambridge University, Watsonians, London Scottish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1968–70) and the Barbarians. The most memorable moment of his playing career was Scotland's 1970 Calcutta Cup victory over England. At 25 he suffered a serious knee injury that ended his sporting career.
Robertson joined the BBC in 1972 and since April 1983 he has been the Corporation's official rugby union correspondent, covering the sport not only on radio but also on television. He regards Scotland's 1984 and 1990 Grand Slams and Jonny Wilkinson's winning drop-kick in the final of the 2003 World Cup as his "best on-air moments". Robertson was also a presenter of the English Premiership video review of 1998-99. In February 2018 he announced that he will be retiring at the end of the year and covered his last game, England v Australia, on 24 November 2018.
Robertson is a prolific writer; he has written over 30 books and a number of biographies, including those of Bill Beaumont, Andy Irvine and actor Richard Burton.
His memoir Rugby: Talking a Good Game was published in November 2018 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Tables of ten £100+VAT per person, to include a magnificent three course lunch and half a bottle of wine per person

Booking enquiries 01844 213735 or by email

The event is sponsored by Swedish bank Handelsbanken.

At Handelsbanken, relationship banking still lives up to its name. You deal with people you know, and decisions are made locally by your branch. Our simple aim is to provide the best possible service to our personal and business banking customers. This is perhaps just one of the reasons we have been voted top for customer satisfaction in an independent survey of British banks for ten years running. (EPSI, Oct 2009-2018).

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