Indeed, two of its partners are due to give evidence to the inquiry in June - I believe the firm was retained by the Post Office for a time. (No doubt someone will be on hand to whisper "Remember you're a Womble" in their ear before they take the stand.)
Naturally, I was curious about a lawyer called Womble, and the Womble Bond Dickinson site does give some of the family history in a 2016 obituary for William F. Womble, Sr. - or Bill Womble, Sr. if you knew him well.
Bill's father, and the first of the lawyer Wombles, was B.S. Womble. That's Bunyan Snipes Womble.
And Bunyan Womble had a brother, also a lawyer, called Calder.
I shall not forget Calder Womble.
Incidentally, if you follow the Womble family back through American genealogy sites, and it's surprisingly easy to do so, it seems their name was originally Wombwell.
Ah, Wombwell. The famous menagerist from Esssex.
ReplyDeleteWe lived up the road from Calder Womble, who bought property back off of what eventually became Shattalon Drive but was then, (around 1951) just plain ole Rt 1, Winston-Salem NC. My father was a business man owning and operating several home-building related businesses after the war. He spoke of Caulder Womble sometimes so knew him, but most importantly to me at age 8, invited us to fish in the lake he had created on his property. In summer my father took my brother, Jeffrey, and me fishing at 6:00 a.m. sometimes. We caught bass and brim and my mother cooked them for breakfast. Now at age 83, I suspect that Mr. Womble was probably my father's attorney, though back then children were not generally privy to such information.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your memories.
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