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Jim Cochrane CBE, Chairman of Sport Cheshire, former Chair of the North West Council for Sport and Recreation and former President of the LTA, died on Tuesday July 17 after a brief and sudden illness.
Jim will be remembered for the tremendous contribution that he made to sport in the North West and nationally, and he will be greatly missed by and all those he came in contact with Jim served the sport of tennis at international level for over 26 years. A former Senior Mathematics teacher in Cheshire, he became Chairman of the LTA in 1981 and then served as President from 1982-1984.
From 1981-1993 he was a member of the Committee of Management of The Championships at Wimbledon. Between 1987-1995 Jim served the ITF as a member of the Committee of Management, Chairman of the Medical Commission (10 years), the Finance Committee, Rules of Tennis, Rules of the ITF, Constitutional Committee, and the Technical Committee and latterly as AGM Parliamentarian and Honorary Life Councillor.
Between 1987 and 1995 Jim served as Chair of the North West Council for Sport and Recreation, the predecessor to the Regional Sport Board.
Jim was a former Board Member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and a member of the Hall of Fame’s International Council and in July 2006 he was presented with the ITHF Golden Achievement Award for contributions to tennis in the fields of administration, promotion or education, and devoted, long and outstanding service to the sport of tennis on a worldwide basis.
Jim was also the former Chairman of the British Tennis Foundation; and Chairman of the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust and the British Schools Tennis Association.
He was the President of the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in Didsbury, Manchester, a position he held for 26 years (one of the oldest clubs in Great Britain, established in 1881) as well as serving as Chairman of the Board of the Cheshire and Warrington Sports Partnership.
In 1984, Jim was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire and the third highest honour in the British Order of Chivalry).
He is survived by his wife Margaret Mary and her two children, Lavell and Dickon.
A Thanksgiving Service will be held in the North West in the autumn on a date to be decided.
Jim’s family has asked that no flowers be sent but donations can be made instead to the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust at the following address:
Dan Maskell Tennis Trust
c/o The British Tennis Foundation
The National Tennis Centre
100 Priory Lane
Roehampton
London
SW15 5JQ
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