Peter Lord’s speech at Bill Dykes’ ’50 years-in-practice’ dinner at The Wig & Pen club, 1977.

Phil’s History:

A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.

Left to Right: Christine Wisher, Bill Dykes, Peter Lord, Ruth Dykes. In 1977, Peter Lord was 65 and Bill Dykes was 80, having commenced practice in 1927 after training at Mewburn Ellis from about 1920, qualifying and buying himself into the 19th century-founded GGM Hardingham practice under the guidance of his cousin Agnes’s ‘family friend’, George Beloe Ellis, a co-founder of Mewburns. Bill and Ruth Dykes were both well-known under the ‘Alvis’ marque, as racing drivers in the 1920s, fifty years before this event.

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Peter Lord’s speech at Bill Dykes’ ’50 years-in-practice’ dinner at The Wig & Pen club, 1977.