Reginald Edgecombe

Reginald Edgecombe joined the gymnastics section of the Birmingham Dolobran Club as an 11-year-old in 1896. He was a member of their Boys’ team that won the Birmingham and District Junior Shield in 1900, and in 1902 was the Birmingham individual youth champion. As a senior, Edgecombe was eight time the Dolobran all-round individual champion, and was the Birmingham & District individual champion in 1922, having been runner-up in the previous two seasons. He was also captain of the Dolobran team that won the Birmingham & District AGA Senior Shield for the second successive year in 1925.

A draughtsman for an electric light-fitting company by trade, Edgecombe later became a gymnastics judge. He was also a keen amateur artist and was still displaying his works well into his seventies.