Obituary - Norman Baptist 1939 - 2019
Norman and Lynette Norman, originally from the East End of London, went into the City straight from school and became an insurance man. I knew him slightly from his time at Wigham Richardson but got to know him very well while handling a huge collision case, 'ATLANTIC EMPRESS' and 'AEGEAN CAPTAIN' that occurred in July 1979. He was working for the owners of the 'EMPRESS' and I was handling the 'EMPRESS' for the Club. I dealt with Norman on his more routine cases as well, and he was subsequently elected to the board of the UK Club and served as a director with distinction, being the only man on that board with insurance expertise. In that capacity, I saw him at each meeting and at the events around them. But such was the impact of the 'EMPRESS' that we - and Richard Shaw, the solicitor who handled the case - held an annual lunch right up until 2010 to commemorate it, and maintained the kind of friendship that such powerful shared experie...