Old Elizabethan becomes Gloucestershire chairman

GUERNSEYMAN Rex Body is the new chairman of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and wants to bring the team to the island.

Body (pictured), who has served as deputy chairman for the last three years and is a former director of Rolls Royce, was voted in at the club's recent annual general meeting.

He replaces John Light, who stepped down on medical advice, and will oversee a proposed £10m. investment in the club's Nevil Road ground.

'Being chairman of this historic club is a great honour and I will serve it with total commitment,' said Body, an Old Elizabethan and a prominent footballer and cricketer in his home island back in the 1950s.

'I'm a sports enthusiast who loves cricket and I want Gloucestershire to succeed at cricket and to achieve and maintain the commercial and financial strength the club needs for the cricket to thrive. This is why it is so crucial to develop the ground and to maintain our international status.

Before leaving the island, Body turned out for the Guernsey Island Cricket Club as well as Pessimists.

He was also a keen footballer, having played for the mighty Rangers side of the 1950s, which included the likes of Alan Hunter, Bill Le Page, Dick Vaudin and Marshal Carre.

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