Arthur Frederick Bettinson

Arthur Frederick "Peggy" Bettinson (10 March 1862 – 24 December 1926) was an English boxing promoter, referee and author. A former amateur boxer, he won the Amateur Boxing Association lightweight title in 1882. In 1891 he co-founded the National Sporting Club (NSC), which became central to the regulation and promotion of professional boxing in Britain. As manager of the club for nearly three decades, Bettinson oversaw its operations during a period when boxing's legal status was contested, appearing as a defendant or witness in multiple court proceedings arising from fatalities in the ring.

Guy Deghy, author of the club's official history, characterised Bettinson as an "autocratic" manager who exercised personal control over the NSC's conduct, while John Harding described him as "one of the most powerful men in British boxing since the turn of the century". Bettinson played a central role in the introduction of the Lonsdale Belt and standardised weight divisions for British championship boxing in 1909. In his later years he resisted the shift towards commercial promotion, and his death in 1926 preceded the club's decline as a regulatory force. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011.