Michael Wojas

Michael Wojas (9 August 1956 – 6 June 2010) was an English nightclub owner who ran The Colony Room Club in Dean Street in London's Soho district, from 1994 until he closed it in 2007, having inherited it from Ian Board who took it over from Muriel Belcher, who founded the private drinking club in 1948.

[1] He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Hertfordshire, and graduated in 1981 from the University of Nottingham with a degree in chemistry.

[1] Wojas brought numerous old-time members to appear as extras too, and when Jacobi appeared, several inebriated habituees thought he was Bacon, and Wojas had to convince them, "It isn't Francis because Francis is dead, and this isn't the Colony Room".

[1] In 2007, the Colony's lease expired, and in deteriorating health, Wojas closed it, and auctioned the artwork including a large painting by Michael Andrews.

[1] Wojas' humanist funeral took place at Kensal Green Crematorium on 16 June 2010, accompanied by the band Alabama 3 and more than 300 mourners, and his home-made cardboard coffin turned out to be too wide to pass through the portal.