Eric Sydney Room (36-44), was born in East Cottingwith in 1926, Eric was local boy who became a student at Pocklington School in 1936. He loved sport but cricket was his passion and he became school First IX Cricket Captain for 1943-44.  

He gained a place at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1944. However National Service intervened and he spent two years in the Royal Navy, before taking up his place one term late in January 1947. Part of the College 1949-50 Hockey team, Eric graduated with a Classics honours degree and spent his working life in education.  

He started work as Classics master and master of Cricket at Tettenhall College in Wolverhampton where he met his wife Patricia. They moved to Wrexham and Eric worked firstly at Grove Park Grammar School and later Yale Sixth Form College. 

Alongside his working life, and during retirement, Eric also devoted many hours to charity work; in particular as Chairman of the Wrexham & District Handicapped Children’s Society. 

Eric was a loving father to three daughters and, subsequently, grandfather to four grandchildren. A proud Yorkshireman, Eric’s other lifelong interests, after cricket (and in particular Yorkshire cricket), included golf and gardening. He is remembered, by family and friends, as a true gentleman with a great sense of humour.