Ted & Audrey Biggs
From Lacey Green History
Edwin Leonard Biggs, known as 'Ted' born 1925 was the son of Ralph & Jesse Biggs
Audrey Piggott born ?
Ted and Audrey married in 1966. They lived at Wayside Cottage, Lacey Green. They had one son
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1974 Hallmark. By the editor under "Personality Parade". Mr Ted Biggs, Secretary of the Sports and Social Club.
Ted has given his life to the Sports and Social Club and consequently much of the club's success is due to him, and a few years ago members showed their appreciation by making him their first Honorary Life Member.
Apart from a break of 18 months he has been the Secretary since 1953, being in the forefront of organising the Club's great money-making activities, 13 years ago joining the Club to the Princes Risborough Sportman's Association, and more recently establishing the '200 Club' that in three years has made £1,400 profit.
In 1967 Ted married and left the village, but luckily only moving to Little Kimble, and close enough to carry on. Once a keen cricketer, but now his sports are golf and tennis. A keen gardener, a family man with one son.
Extract from Sports Club Chairmans, AGM report in Hallmark, December 1978
It is with great regret that I must report the retirement of our club secretary, Ted Biggs. Ted has been secretary for 26 years now - a long time to serve one club so faithfully by anybody's standards. I am sure all members, both present and past, will join me in saying a hearty thank you Ted for all the hard work that he has put in during those years. His efforts stretch back long before I joined the club, to the building of the existing pavilion, and I think it fair to say he has now seen another hurdle over with the successful completion of the new extentions. To you Ted, "Thank you" from all of us.
Once a keen cricketer, but now his sports are golf and tennis. A keen gardener, a family man with one son.
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This obituary of Ted Biggs was written by Geoff Gomme.
He titled it "Farewell Mr. Sports Club"
If anyone deserved the above title it was probably former Secretary/Treasurer Ted Biggs. We lost Ted a few weeks before Christmas, aged 76. But he left a legacy which greatly benefits present club members, and will benefit those who follow. This is by way of being a small tribute to his memory.
After WWII service in the Fleet Air Arm, Ted joined the Sports Club Committee - that was in 1946.
Always with an eye to improving and modernizing the club, Ted came up with many of those ideas from which members benefit today. In 1951 he was one of a sub - committee - the others being Bill Dell, Jack Dell, Sid Goodchild and Alf Stevens - who raised loans from members to purchase from Princes Risborough their unwanted pavilion and transport it to Lacey Green, there to rebuild and restore it with voluntary labour, replacing the ancient shed-like building.
In 1951, after a spell as Assistant Secretary to Frank Chilton, Ted took over the job full-time and not long after combined it with that of Treasurer, continuing until well into the seventies until other commitments took up all his time.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Ted decided the club should have a bar like ones he'd seen in bigger clubs. Lacey Green soon had the first bar in the Wycombe and District League. So you drinkers, raise a glass to Ted.
Present Tennis Club members also have reason to be grateful to Ted. His idea it was, when the Club had plenty of money - thanks to many voluntary fund-raisers - to build the first court.
He was - and I am grateful to Bill Dell for this and other snippets of information - the only member to play cricket, football and tennis at Lacey Green.
On a personal note, I too have reason to thank Ted. When I re-introduced football in 1955 and, like him, became Secretary/Treasurer he helped me to make all the figures in my accounts add up - something that had eluded me.
I remember Ted as a cricketer. He was a brave wicketkeeper and suffered for it. As a batsman his ambition appeared to be to hit every ball out of the ground. But, undoubtedly his greatest contribution to the club was his dedication, hard work and determination to make Lacey Green one of the best - if not the best - club in the area. A quiet man - except when appealing for a catch or stumping - he could be very serious about things he considered important, but he also enjoyed a joke as much as anyone.
The Sports Ground and its facilities are a lasting memorial to Ted's dedication.
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