Friday, April 19,2024 -Former Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick has died at the age of 84. Keswick, a successful merchant banker, first joined the Gunners board as a director in 2005 before going on to take the mantle of chairman in 2013. He served in that role until retiring in May 2020, though he maintained an interest in the club.
A club statement read: "It is with
great sadness that the club reports the death of former Chairman, Sir Chips
Keswick. A lifelong Arsenal supporter, he was a regular at Highbury after first
standing in the boys’ enclosure in 1949 and listed his early heroes as the
Compton brothers and Jimmy Logie but, above all, goalkeeper – and later manager
– George Swindin, as young Chips was a budding schoolboy keeper himself.
"But it was in the banking industry
Sir Chips made his name, where he was a very senior figure for many years,
rising to become Chairman of Hambros Bank and also a Director of the Bank of
England. It was during his successful banking career that he became good
friends with our former Chairman, Peter Hill-Wood – a former Vice-Chairman of
Hambros – and Peter recognised that his business acumen, common sense and love
of the Gunners would make him an ideal board member at Highbury."
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