LOFT made a link with the Club's past when it acquired 414 shares in Leyton Orient Football Club Ltd from Mary Cornish, now residing in Swansea.
These shares had been owned by various members of the Cornish family for many decades. Mary is the daughter-in-law of William Cornish, whom she describes as “a Founder of Clapton Orient”. We do know that Mr C.W.J. Cornish was a Director of the Club between 1914 and 1934 (the picture below shows Mr Cornish and the other Orient directors with the future King George VI in 1922). Mr Cornish died in 1943.
Mary was delighted to donate the shares to Orient fans, where their legacy can continue as part of the shareholding in LOFT’s name.
Photo from the book 'Images of Leyton Orient FC', by Leyton Orient Historian and published by Tempus Publishing, Stroud in 2001. Reproduced by kind permission of the author.
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