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John Camkin was born on 23 June, 1922, is an English journalist. Discover John Camkin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Timeline
William John Camkin, MA (23 June 1922 – 19 June 1998) was an English journalist, football, business and sports administrator.
Camkin was born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the son of Bill Camkin and Helena Ethel Holder.
His father was managing director of Birmingham City F.C., and also owned a number of billiard and snooker halls in Birmingham.
He had introduced a snooker championship which became 'The Embassy Cup' between 1936 and 1956.
Educated at Warwick School and St Edmund Hall Oxford, where he captained the college football first XI, In 1942, he served with the University Air Squadron, and later the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a navigator with Bomber Command.
Demobbed in 1946, he resumed his journalistic career (he had worked on a local paper before going up to Oxford) as a sports writer on the Birmingham Gazette.
Report on India's 1948 Europe Tour and the first International match, played at Ilford FC ground, Essex, 31 July 1948.
In an article "Football: The wolves in sheepskin coats: Rich man's indulgence or ego trip disguised as philanthropy?"
He commentated for BBC Radio for seven years, covering the 1954, 1958, and 1962 World Cups.
He wrote a book about the 1958 tournament.
Camkin had travelled all over the world reporting football, and after leaving Fleet Street, in 1960 Camkin bought a travel agency in Leamington Spa and built a small group of travel shops known as John Camkin Travel Ltd, throughout the area.
These were located in Coventry, Hinckley, Banbury, Nuneaton, Birmingham, London and Dunstable.
He is quoted as saying 'I got the idea from my travels'...You know, you never see an old football correspondent-they merely fade away'
He was instrumental in persuading Jimmy Hill, who at the time was the chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, to take a management career with the club, which he did from 1961 to 1967.
He became a director of Coventry City Football Club in 1962.
He kept fit by playing cricket for Wellesbourne Cricket Club, (Club captain in 1963) one of the oldest in the country, together with tennis.
ITV had won the rights to cover the 1966 FIFA World Cup alongside the BBC; and John Camkin was part of the team including Hugh Johns, Gerry Loftus, and Barry Davies.
He sold his business to the Thomson Holidays Travel Group in 1972 and his travel shops were re-branded Lunn Poly.
In 1976, Camkin, Hill and Olaf Dixon with the World Sports Academy, the company founded by Jimmy Hill, went to Saudi Arabia to develop football and run the national side there.
Later Camkin and Hill undertook another venture backing the Detroit Express team in the North American League.
At the end of a successful three-year contract in Saudi, John Camkin and Olaf Dixon returned to England and took over the administration and organisation of the Secretaries' and Managers' Association, the forerunner to the League Managers Association.
In the early 1980s, he managed several promising young golfers, including Howard Clark and Pip Elson who was born in Leamington Spa.
In the 1990s, Camkin lived in Lansdowne Circus, Leamington Spa and was also director of George Dick Travel Ltd (1991–92), and Leamington Tennis Court Co Ltd, (1991–98) John Camkin was Leamington Tennis Court Club (LTCC) chairman from 1978 to 1995.
'A man characterised by a keenly sardonic wit, Camkin could be capricious – if not thoroughly Machiavellian.
Never in danger of being described as one of life's most gracious losers, John Camkin was nevertheless excellent company: despite a firmly-stated preference for dogs over humans, he socialised easily – with just about anyone, anywhere.' On assuming the rôle of chairman, he announced that the club’s parlous finances demanded immediate attention.
Subscription fees were tripled, and, only a few years later, he oversaw a fundraising campaign which yielded over £100,000.
Today, the equivalent sum would stand closer to half a million pounds sterling.
by Simon O'Hagan studies the changing face of chairmanship, The Independent, Sunday 23 October 1994.
He remained a bachelor, and died of cancer in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on 19 June 1998, age 75.
"Coventry City F.C.'s anthem has been sung on the pitch at the club's stadium to mark the 50th anniversary (22 December 2012) of the song. The Sky Blue Song to the tune of 'the Eton Boating Song' was written by ex-manager Jimmy Hill and former director John Camkin."
As the story is remembered by Jimmy Hill 'I sat down one Sunday night with John Camkin – a board member and commentator for Anglia TV – and we had a few gins, well we had a whole bottle actually, and he'd heard the Eton boating Song on the radio and said 'Why don't we build around that?'