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Sir Arthur South was a prominent
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politician and administrator in the 1970s.
Having been Norwich City Council's youngest councillor, South was
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of
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and led the Council for 18 years.
He will be "remembered by football fans as a forthright chairman and high-profile ambassador of
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." It was in recognition of this that South was made an inaugural inductee of the
Norwich City Hall of Fame. For many years, one of the
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stands was named in his honour; the South Stand was rebuilt in 2004 and is now known as the Jarrold Stand.
His name lives on at the
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where the operating theatre
complex for day surgery is named the Arthur South Day Procedure Unit.