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Sir Robert Ian Bellinger, (10 March 1910 – 8 July 2002) was a British politician and
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. Bellinger was born in Gloucestershire and raised in Fulham, London where he attended All Saints church school. Following his father's death he started work at the age of 14 as an office boy. He studied accountancy at the
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before joining Kinloch, the wholesale grocery. He rose through the ranks to become chairman in 1946, a post which he held until retirement in 1975. He joined the
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in 1946, and was elected onto the Court of Common Council seven years later. An
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in 1958 he became Sheriff of the
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in 1962 and finally Lord Mayor (and with it, the ''
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'' title of Chancellor of City University) in 1966. He was a Governor of the
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and chairman of the Panel for Civil Service Manpower Review. From 1969 to 1985 he served as
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of the
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. In 1970, he was named as chairman of the National Savings Committee. He was a keen sportsman, playing for Ealing Football Club in his youth, and was president of several
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sports clubs. He was also a longtime director of
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from 1960 until 1996."Arsenal Shareholders Offer a Piece of their Mind"
4thegame.com; accessed 30 April 2016. On his retirement as a director of Arsenal he was appointed Life President, a title he held until his death in 2002.


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