Runtown biography of william hill

Born in Birmingham , Hill left school at the age of twelve to work on his uncle's farm. While working in a factory in Birmingham he started collecting illegal bets from local people on his motorcycle. After the hopeless failure of his first foray into bookmaking, he moved to London in where he started taking bets on greyhounds before opening an illicit gambling den in Jermyn Street in He exploited a loophole which allowed credit or postal betting but not cash.

In he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon. In he reversed his business into Holder's Investment Trust , a shell company , thereby securing a listing on the London Stock Exchange. Although he had called legal betting offices "a cancer on society", he opened his first in , after his competitors had stolen a march on him. He was also interested in breeding horses and in bought a stud at Whitsbury in Hampshire.

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Hill bred and owned Cantelo , a filly who won the St Leger Stakes in He retired in and died in Newmarket the following year, aged In he married Ivy Burley and together they had one daughter, Kathleen Hill. In he had a second daughter, Miranda Baker, with his partner Sheila Baker. This page was last updated at UTC. Update now. View original page.

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