Former Bermuda national team rugby player Brian Toms will be remembered this weekend at his favourite fishing spot.

Mr Toms arrived in Bermuda in the 1970s to teach maths at Saltus Grammar School and became a stalwart of the Teachers Rugby Club during his time on the Island.

The 63-year-old passed away at the end of last year in the UK but on Sunday friends and team-mates will join his wife, Denise, and son, Brynley, in scattering his ashes in the North Channel near marker 38 off Dockyard.

“Brian loved spearfishing and he loved being out at sea, so this is a very fitting place for us to go,” Mrs Toms told The Royal Gazette.

“My son and I have come back to Bermuda because we think this is what Brian would have wanted. He loved his rugby and he loved his fishing.

“He was a very popular man in everything that he did, and always had others in mind.”

Mr Toms came to Bermuda in 1974 to work at Saltus and met his Bermudian wife the following year.

The couple married in England in December 1980 and lived together in Bermuda for nearly three decades during which time he also worked as an accountant.

Mr and Mrs Toms returned to Wales — the country of his birth — in August 2003.

Mr Toms’s friends have hired out the Uber Vida for Sunday’s memorial event and the boat will leave from Number One Dock, opposite HSBC on Front Street, at 2pm.

There will be a short ceremony at sea and then a reception back to The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club.

Anyone that would like to attend should contact Dennis Cherry, the Teacher’s Rugby Football Club treasurer, at trfc.secretary@gmail.com or by calling 505 4721.