Arthur Drewery had a long and distinguished record of service to football. He was elected presidency of the league in May 1949 and was also vice president of the International Football Federation.

Back home in Grimsby he also sat on Grimsby Borough Council representing Wellow Ward, a position he’d held since 1940. His interests on the council were education and youth work. In 1954 he decided not to seek re-election due to ill health.

In 1955 he became the FA chief and the first Englishman to become President of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA).

He also received the Olympic Cross of Merit for his ‘invaluable work and untiring efforts’ for football during the Olympic games in Helsinki. He had also been a Director of Grimsby Town Football Club (1925) and devoted a sizable part of his time to the game he loved.

His family business was in fishing, a job he’d entered after the First World War, and he was a fish merchant until he retired in 1953. He was also a Justice of the Peace and received the CBE.

In 1919 he married Ida May Stookes and had one son and daughter. Ida was the daughter of the first person he worked for after the war. He died in 1961 and six members from Grimsby Town were his pallbearers including Don Donovan. The great and good from world football, as well as the fishing industry were present.

Not so bad for a young chap who survived being blown up by a torpedo in the First World War.