Education
He had attended on behalf of North.N. Club (also known as NN Kilburn).
He had attended on behalf of North.N. Club (also known as NN Kilburn).
Arthur Pember was one of the founders of association football, having been elected as the president of The Football Association at the meeting where the organisation was founded in October 1863. He was a highly educated Victorian with a knowledge of literature, science, current affairs, et cetera He also had a career as a New York journalist just after the American Civil War.
The most interesting fact was his undercover investigations and his involvement with the most prominent editors of the day.
He worked for the press in the early days of investigative journalism, when the New York Times exposed severe malpractices in Government including Boss Tweed of the Tammany Ring. Pember"s investigations generally had a large degree of humour and an element of danger, as he uncovered the truth behind American and Victorian society, meeting on one hand street beggars and on the other the leading industrialists of the day.
He was also an author who wrote a significant book referred to by reformers of the time. Mr. Pember was the author of an 1874 book published by Doctorate. Appleton & Company entitled "The Mysteries and Miseries of the Great Metropolis"
Mr.
Pember died on 3 April 1886 in LaMoure, North Dakota according to an obituary note in the 4 April 1886 edition of the New York Times.
He was also a member of the Wanderers amateur football club