Frank Butler (British sportswriter)
Frank James Butler
sportswriter and author. He was one of Fleet Street's best-known and longest-serving sports editors, retiring from that position at the News of the World
in 1982, after 22 years' service. Though Butler covered all sports, boxing was always his favourite.
His father,
Olympia
.
At 16 Butler joined the Sunday Express (the youngest person to hold that position).
In 1949 the News of The World hired Butler as a sports columnist on a salary dubbed 'the highest transfer fee in Fleet Street'; and he became the newspaper's sports editor in 1960.
In 1954 he was a founder member of the Boxing Writers' Club, and later became its chairman. In 1984 he was made an administrative steward of the British Boxing Board of Control, and after retiring in 1997, was elected honorary steward.
He was the author of at least four books on the subject of boxing. His first, The Fight Game, was co-written with his father and published in 1954.
He was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1981 New Year Honours.[1]
References
- ^ United Kingdom list: "No. 48467". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1980. p. 10.
- timesonline.co.uk obituary.
- Butler, James & Frank. The Fight Game, The World's Work, 1954.
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