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Arthur Battishill Yolland (24 August 1874,
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- 12 November 1956,
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) was an English literary scholar, tennis coach, footballer and international referee.


Life

His parents were John Yolland and Emma Pace. He was born in
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,
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,
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on 24 August 1874. He attended
Rossall School Rossall School is a private Day school, day and boarding school, boarding school in the United Kingdom for 0–18 year olds, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Rossall was founded in 1844 by St. Vincent Beechey, St Vincent Beechey as a ...
,
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between 1888 and 1893. He continued his studies at the
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and in 1896 he earned a
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. In the same year, he was invited by Mihály Demeczky to become an English teacher at the József Ferenc Institute. In 1898, he became a lecturer at the
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. In 1914, he was appointed as the head of the Department of English. Between 1945 and 1947, he became the head of department once again. In 1905, he obtained a
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degree at the
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.


Referee career

On 11 June 1903, he was appointed as the referee for the match between
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and
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. The match was played at Margitsziget stadion in Budapest and ended with a 3-2 home win in front of 700 spectators.


Major works in English language

He wrote more than 74 works during his lifetime. * Yolland, A.B. (1906). ''Shakespeare or Bacon?'' Budapest * Yolland, A.B. (1907). ''The Constitutional Struggle of the Magyars''. London. * Yolland, A.B. (1908). ''The National Spirit in Hungarian Literature''. Cambridge, (Modern History. Vol. XI.) * Yolland, A.B. (1908). ''The Queen Elisabeth Memorial Museum''. Ford. Budapest. * Yolland, A.B. (1908). ''Education in Hungary''. Budapest. * Yolland, A.B. (1917). ''Hungary''. London


References

{{Authority control People from Hoylake Sportspeople from Wirral 1874 births 1956 deaths Eötvös Loránd University alumni British emigrants to Austria-Hungary Hungarian people of British descent People educated at Rossall School