Malcolm Read

Malcolm Read started playing hockey during his time at the Royal Masonic School in Hertfordshire. He continued playing the sport after going to Queens’ College Cambridge, where he became a hockey Blue in 1962. After Cambridge, Read went to St Thomas’s hospital in London and continued playing hockey for the hospital and for Dulwich HC. He also played for United Hospitals and won County honours with Kent, and in 1965 helped them become the first side to win the County Championship in successive years when they beat Durham 2-0 in the final. Read toured India and Pakistan with Great Britain in 1967 and the following year was a member of the Great Britain team that finished 12th (out of 16) at the Mexico Olympics.

Read became a GP (General Practitioner) and in the 1980s was the medical officer to the British Amateur Athletic Board, and later a medical advisor to the British Olympic Association. Read was also an excellent cricketer and in 1967 helped St Thomas’s beat St Mary’s to win the Hospitals’ Cup.