Nipper Read, police officer
Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read - a British police officer and boxing administrator – died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19.
Read was the son of Leonard Read Snr., who worked for a leather company, and his wife Ida (née Morris). His mother died when he was four and he was sent to live with her brother. After their father remarried, Leonard and his two sisters and brother returned to live with their father and stepmother.
Read did well in school, always being one of the top three pupils in junior and senior school. He learned to box, winning his first medal in 1937. He later joined the Grundy boxing club, where he was nicknamed "Nipper". Read had hoped to attend Nottingham High School and passed the entrance exam, but his father could not afford the...