Charles Burton was an English journalist and sportswriter. He was the founder of the

Public School Wanderers The Public School Wanderers Club is a sports club in the United Kingdom that was formed in 1940 by Charles Burton, a Fleet Street journalist. It was formed to provide cricket and rugby for public schoolboys during their school holidays, but wi ...

Club and also of the

National Schools Sevens The Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens is an English rugby union sevens tournament, organised by Rosslyn Park F.C., that has evolved into the world's largest rugby tournament with some 9,500 boys and girls aged 13 – 19 competing annually from o ...

(hosted by

Rosslyn Park F.C. Rosslyn Park Football Club is a rugby union club based in south west London. History Founded in 1879 by cricketing friends in north London, at the end of their first season, Charles Hoyer Millar proposed forming a football club to keep the p ...

), which were inaugurated in 1939. This is the biggest seven-a-side tournament in the world, attracting more than 300 school teams and over 3,500 schoolchildren from all over the world.

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