I started playing Bridge aged 11 and at secondary school was lucky enough to partner Tom Townsend and to be taught Physics (and advanced bridge concepts) by Mike Gold (father of David).
I continued playing whilst at Cambridge University and Guildford College of Law but after qualifying as a Solicitor and working as a corporate finance advisor in the City began to play less frequently.
I’ve always loved games but fell in love with bridge when I was first taught it at age 21. Unfortunately though, career, friends, family and life in general all meant that I wasn’t able to start playing and learning regularly for another 15 years or so. I was lucky enough to be taught by both Raymond and Sally Brock, and at the European Championships in Istanbul in 2019 I won a bronze medal in the Transnational Women’s Teams partnering Sally, in a team that also included Diana Nettleton, Marusa Gold and Susanna Gross.
I was brought up in North Derbyshire. Following undergraduate study in maths & economics, and subsequent postgraduate study at Warwick, I joined Durham University in the mid 1970s as a Senior Research Assistant on a one-year contract. Some 40 plus years later, and having held a variety of positions (including Dean of Social Sciences, Principal of two Colleges and having been promoted to Professor of Economics in 1996), I left in 2017.
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Bridge has always been an important part of my life. I learned to play in the 1960s and it was not long before I was playing a weekly duplicate at the local bridge club. I met my wife Helen, now of more than 30 years, at a bridge club. When my children were very young I took a 5 year break from the game, however I returned in the late 1980s and have continued to play since that time.
Jeremy was born in 1951 in North London. He started playing bridge at school and entered the London School 's League (80+ teams in those days and run by Maureen Hiron). In the second year his school team won the league when the auction at his team mates table was 2H(weak) by East all pass which made and at his table, without interruption, the auction by North South went 1D 1NT 2D 2NT 3D 3NT.