Harry Thompson

6th February 1960-7th November 2005

Harry Thompson played every single Scotts game from 1979 onwards - through a combination of fortune (the few games he intended to miss were mysteriously rained off, and both his children were born midweek), reasonable physical health and as he once put it, 'severe mental illness' - until contracting a virulent form of lung cancer in the spring of 2005, despite never having had so much as a puff of a cigarette in his entire life.

As well as captaining the Captain Scott side, he was a comedy writer and producer having produced:

Have I Got News For You
They Think Its All Over
Da Ali G Show
Monkey Dust
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Harry Enfield and Chums
Newman
Baddel In Pieces

and also a novelist (his debut novel, "This Thing of Darknes", was longlisted for the Booker Prize:
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He was a one man wonder: charismatic, driven, sarcastic, an intellectual and creative colossus, a fiendishly anal keeper of records, scrupulously fair and exceedingly passionate. In his own way, he was bionic. We shall not see his like again.

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In Loving Memory...

Harry Thompson
(1960 - 2005)

"a captain, friend,
father and husband,
never forgotten... "