Sir Daniel Eric Arthur Pettit (19 February 1915 – 28 July 2010) was an English
footballer, soldier, and industrialist.
Early life
He was born in
Liverpool,
in 1915, the son of Thomas Edgar Pettit.
Football career
After graduating from
Quarry Bank High School
Calderstones School is an English comprehensive school located opposite Calderstones Park on Harthill Road in the Liverpool suburb of Allerton.
The school was founded in 1921 as Quarry Bank High School for Boys and its first intake of 225 pu ...
in Liverpool in 1934, Pettit played amateur football for
Cambridge University, where he was reading History at
Fitzwilliam House. Whilst still at university he represented
Great Britain in
Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Football at the 1936 Summer Olympics was won by Italy. After the introduction of the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 (which had, in itself led to the absence of a football tournament from the 1932 Games programme), competing nations would from now ...
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Later life
He served in the Second World War from 1940 with the Royal Artillery in Africa, India and Burma, demobilising with the rank of Major in 1946.[
He taught at ]Highgate School
Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate ...
from 1939 until December 1947 and subsequently became a distinguished industrialist, serving as chairman of the National Freight Corporation from 1971 to 1978, and Director of Lloyds Bank from 1977 to 1985. He was knighted for his services to industry in 1974.
He married in 1940 Winifred, daughter of William Bibby, by whom he had two sons.[ Pettit lived latterly at Bransford Court near Worcester.][
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1915 births
2010 deaths
Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
English men's footballers
English industrialists
Cambridge University A.F.C. players
Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Knights Bachelor
Olympic footballers for Great Britain
Men's association football midfielders
20th-century English businesspeople
British Army personnel of World War II
Royal Artillery officers
Footballers from Liverpool