Peter Denis Hill-Wood is a British

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 businessman and the current chairman of Arsenal Football Club

Arsenal F.C.

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Hill-Wood was born in Kensington

Kensington

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, London

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. His father, three uncles and grandfather all played first-class cricket for Derbyshire CCC. He attended Eton College

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 where he was a classmate of former Arsenal Director Sir Roger Gibbs. He then served in the Coldstream Guards

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. After leaving the Guards, Hill-Wood entered the banking industry, eventually rising to become a vice-chairman of Hambros Bank

Hambros Bank

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, having previously been in charge of its investment division.

Hill-Wood has since retired from his post at Hambros, and is currently a director of Cavenham Ltd and Hellenic and General Trust.

He married in 1971 and has three children Julian, Charles and Sarah, who is married to Timothy Dana, an American.
He is the third generation of his family to serve as Chairman of Arsenal

Arsenal F.C.

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, following his father, Denis Hill-Wood

Denis Hill-Wood

Denis John Charles Hill Hill-Wood was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Oxford University and MCC in 1928 and for Derbyshire in 1928 and 1929...

 (1962–1982), and his grandfather, Samuel Hill-Wood (1929-1936 & 1946-1949).