Michael Glover (Mike) (1972-1977)
Died June 2023, aged 63
My great friend, Mike, died peacefully at home on 21st June 2023 following a long and brave battle with Motor Neurone Disease.
Mike was born on 29th March 1959 and was at Gayhurst School before starting at Merchant Taylors’ in 1972, where both his father, Denis, and his uncle, Alan, had been pupils in the 1940s. Mike was a proud OMT and over the years loved returning to the school for OMT Day, attending the Triennial Service and the Society Dinner.
After school, he studied Accountancy at the University of Kent and passed a couple of summers working on the beach in the South of France as a windsurfing instructor. Following graduation, he spent 40 years in senior financial roles in real-estate management and development.
Mike loved his rugby and after university he joined Beaconsfield Rugby Club, where he was to become the co-founder of their Bandits XV, enthusiastically captaining and taking on all the challenges of organising this most social, if not the most skilful, of teams. He was also a passionate Bath Rugby supporter and regular at The Rec for many years, travelling down from Buckinghamshire, then later up from Hampshire and for the last seven or eight years from his home in Horningsham, Wiltshire where he and his wife, Liz, had found the home of their dreams on the Longleat Estate.
There are, of course, many memories, not least Mike’s roguish and irreverent sense of humour, always imparted with a twinkle in his eye; but above all he will be remembered as loved by everybody.
Colin Wigginton (1973–1977)