PROMOTER KNIGHTED
MANAGER OF WEMBLEY STADIUM
Known to sportsmen throughout the Empire, Mr Arthur Elvin, managing director of Wembley Stadium, organiser of the Cup Finals, is the first professional sports promoter to receive a knighthood. Arthur Elvin, now 46, began life as a paper boy, sold cigarettes at £4 10s a week for a kiosk at the Wembley Empire Exhibition, and later bought the stadium for £122,500.
Later he resold it to the present company, Wembley Stadium, Ltd., at £27,500 profit, and became their managing director—at the age of 28. He raised £160,000 for charity during the war.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 24, 13 September 1946, Page 5
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98PROMOTER KNIGHTED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 24, 13 September 1946, Page 5
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