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Hans Bjerrum
Hans Adolf Bjerrum (8 September 1899 in Hellerup, Denmark – 10 May 1979 in London, England) was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Danish field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He later formed the Danish civil engineering company Bierrum, known for building cooling towers for power stations.[1] Personal lifeHe married on 21 October 1924. He played hockey for Middlesex in the 1920s.[2] On 13 May 1928 they had a daughter, Johanne, who married Gerald Murray in 1955.[3] They lived at Peterborough House, on Grove Hill in Harrow in the 1920s.[4][5] They lived at The Orchard in Sudbury Hill, from the 1930s.[6] In the 1930s he worked with the Anglo-Danish Society[7] and the Danish Club (formed in 1863).[8] Due to his work, as chairman of the Danish Club, King Frederik IX of Denmark made him a Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog in December 1963.[9]Structural engineer Sir Ove Arup also attended the Danish Club at this time. His wife Karen Gertrud Caroline Nielsen, born on 15 June 1900, died on 29 August 1979.[10] His son (Nils) Roger was born on 16 March 1931,[11] who gained a first class degree in Engineering from Merton College, Oxford in 1957.[12] Roger married Emily Doris Williamson in early 61, with children Stephen, Mary, Libby, Hugh and Hans. They would live in Pirton, Hertfordshire, west of Hitchin.[13] Emily died on 12 October 1984, in Chesham. [14] Roger remarried Violet Oliver in late 1986. Roger died on 16 January 2021, aged 89, having lived in Northchurch in Hertfordshire. Another son Alexander (Sandy) Milne was born 9 March 1944, who married Alison Mackenzie-Wood of Hertfordshire in early 1973.[15] They had children Rona in November 1979, and Serena in early 1981. Sandy died on 1 October 2022.[16] See alsoReferences
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