Managing director and secretary of Arsenal Football Club. He started working temporarily for the club while still a boy, and worked his way up through the ranks.
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John Forbes O'Connell
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
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Kensington Hippodrome
A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success partly because the clay ground was not suitable and partly because the local population (slum-dwellers, basically) unlike ...
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The Ashes
A test cricket series played between England and Australia. The name originated following a satirical obituary published in the British newspaper, The Sporting Times, after Australia's 1882 victory...
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Paddington Recreation Ground
Noted as the earliest public athletic ground in London. It includes ten tennis courts, an athletics track, two artificial grass pitches, and two bowling greens.
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C. B. Fry
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Burgess Park designers - 1979 air crash
SE5, Burgess Park, Cobourg Road
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