Arthur Pember (15 January 1835 – 3 April 1886)[2] was a British sportsman, stockbroker, lawyer, journalist and author, notable for serving as the first president of The Football Association from 1863 to 1867.

[5] The newly married couple moved to their own house in Carlton Road, Maida Vale,[6] but Elizabeth died of complications of a miscarriage in December of that same year.

During the meeting, however, FA secretary Ebenezer Morley brought the delegates' attention to a recently published set of football laws from Cambridge University which banned carrying and hacking.

[16][13] A number of representatives who supported rugby-style football did not attend this additional meeting,[17] resulting in hacking and carrying being banned.

[13] Francis Campbell of Blackheath, the most prominent "hacking" club, accused Pember of improperly managing the 24 November meeting, with the purpose of preventing the "pro-hacking" laws from being adopted.

In 1871, along with colleague Edward Breck, he published an exposé of so-called "panel-houses" ("places for robbery, most ingeniously prepared and carried on under the guise of prostitution"), in which he named both the owners of the establishments and the police officers who were bribed to permit their crimes to continue.

[31][32][33] Pember's aggressive journalistic style was described as "attack[ing] the specialty of abuses like a terrier after rats, hesitating at no sort of a hole or vileness of vermin".

[35][36] He followed this up in 1872 and 1873 with a series of The New York Times articles exploring "how the other half lives", for which the author assumed several disguises including beggar and circus performer.

These articles were collected and edited, with substantial additional material, into Pember's 1874 book The Mysteries and Miseries of the Great Metropolis.

In 1875, Pember appeared before a New York state legislative crime committee in order to testify about the police collusion he had discovered in 1871.

[1] In May 1884, Pember moved with his five sons from New York to LaMoure, Dakota Territory, in order to become a stock farmer.

[2] An 1885 newspaper article reported that Pember was writing a book entitled "Twenty Years in New York Journalism".

The article explored Pember's education in England and journalistic career in New York in some detail, but said nothing about football.

His three American-born sons who survived infancy were Roosa Herbert (b. Connecticut 1869; 3 children), Gilbert Edward (b.