SUMMER 2012 ISSUE No. 150 - Shrewsbury School

Chairman and Trustee of the Royal
Liverpool Golf Club, long time member,
Captain and President of the Hittites, a
North Western Society where only those
with a handicap of 4 or less are invited to
join – and always someone who was
enormous fun to play with. His failure to
enthuse about Modern Languages at
Shrewsbury paid when he was the first
captain of RLGC to deliver a speech entirely
in German to a visiting party from Hanover
without understanding a single word that he
said. He thought he was giving a talk on the
history of Links Golf, and the influence of
John Ball and Harold Hilton on the modern
game – his German guests may have been
somewhat bemused, and far too polite to
react to a brief summary of the D-Day
landings.
On the football field his activities centred
round the Liverpool Ramblers with whom he
played for many years and of which he was
proud to be Secretary and then President.
He maintained that he held the record as
the only man to have played (pre-veterans)
for all four Ramblers teams in four
consecutive weeks, but in the words of his
favourite comedian Eric Morecambe, in no
particular order. And in cricket he was a
devoted member of the Spasmodics
Cricket Club with whom he spent many
enjoyable days.
And the third side was his family, and fiftytwo
years spent with Katie, with particularly
special times spent with her and the
children at Trearddur Bay, and in Tasmania,
Katie's home and his adopted one. He was
very proud of his sons Chris and Richard
Ian Campion with his sons Will and Jonty and his brother Barry at The Old Course, St Andrews
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who followed him to Rigg’s, and his
daughter Jo, and so thrilled that two of his
grandsons have followed him to
Shrewsbury (with more to come!). He and
Katie travelled widely together when he was
doing business, but so often it was back to
Trearddur Bay to carry out 'urgent' DIY or to
get the boat ready; and it was also so often
to Australia and back home to Tasmania,
where he died. His funeral, in the chapel
where they were married, was filled by all
his family and his very many friends there.
Tim was to everyone a thoroughly decent
man – modest, loyal, supportive, generous,
and enormously good company. His love of
team games says it all – he was so much at
home in such company; but above all he
loved being at home with all his family.