Month: October 2025

Dear Friends and Supporters,

I’m writing to let you know that Tony Mason, a long-time member of Ludlow and Marches Humanists died on 23rd September at the age of 96, I believe.

Tony and his wife Joan were two of the founder members of the Welsh Marches Humanist Group, as the Ludlow and Marches Humanists were originally called, back in 1994 and Tony went on to serve as the group’s chairman for many years.

Both Tony and Joan have remained stalwart supporters of humanism in Ludlow so Tony’s death, though not unexpected, is a sad loss to all of us.

Joan has told me that Tony had slipped into a coma and had excellent medical care for 3 days before dying peacefully.

There are no plans for a funeral, just a family memorial later in the year.

With regards,

Malcolm Rochefort
Chair, Ludlow and Marches Humanists

September 16th 2025

In this event report, Malcolm Rochefort summarises the intriguing talk by Dr Ian Jefferson, a retired paediatric endocrinologist

Dr Jefferson talk was enticingly entitled ‘Sugar & Spice or Slugs & Snails?’

We’re familiar with the rhyme suggesting that boys and girls are made from different things – pleasant (girls) or unpleasant (boys)! In fact, apart from the obvious external signs of sex, what are the genetic determinators and what do they really affect in terms of sexual development in human beings?

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