Our annual AGM immediately followed by the talk “The King’s Jockey: Bertie Jones, the forgotten hero” – Lesley Gray.

Most people have heard of the suffragette Emily Davison who ran out in front of the king’s horse during the 1913 Epsom Derby. But who was the jockey - and what happened to him? On the eve of the 2025 Derby our speaker, author, editor and academic Lesley Gray, explains Bertie’s rise to fame, how he did much to help the popularity of the scandal-prone prince soon to be King Edward VII and how Bertie’s life was changed forever by the fateful horse race that resulted in the death of a woman.