Ambolley biography of william hill

Born in Birmingham , Hill left school at the age of twelve to work on his uncle's farm. 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 In he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon. Although he had called legal betting offices "a cancer on society", he opened his first in , [ 5 ] 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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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. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.