Leslie Seward became an Exeter City director immediately after the Second World War and served until the mid-1950s.

Mr Seward, born in 1903, was City’s youngest director when he joined the board and had a background in the meat trade. Having taken over the family business he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming president of the National Federation of Meat Traders. And, whereas his father had served as Sheriff of Exeter, L J Seward enjoyed a term as deputy mayor in the mid-1960s.

Having been an Exeter City director for around ten years, Mr Seward thereafter continued in business until the age of seventy and died in 1996 aged ninety-three.