Changing Times

Frank Foord, who had joined the firm in 1928, became a partner in 1955 and opened an office in Castle Cary. The Cary office was subsequently headed by Gerald Morris until it closed in 2001.

Four new partners joined in the sixties: Ernest White in 1960, John Evemy in 1962 and Michael Blackwell and Gerald Morris in 1968.

As Edgar Mole had done before him, Michael Blackwell (pictured left) joined the boards of Stansells and the Castle Hotel, eventually accumulating a staggering thirty directorships.

John took on the treasurership of the Somerset County Cricket Club in 1969 and introduced new financial controls. Such was the success of the new system that he was invited to Lords to lecture to the other Counties on the merits of proper financial disciplines. He resigned the treasurership in 1979, the year Somerset won both the Gillette Cup and the John Player League. The firm subsequently secured the Club's audit.

In 1980, Stuart Pullen joined the partnership, steadily building the firm’s portfolio of farming clients.