In what may have been a carefully-staged reprise of bandleader Jack Hylton (himself a cousin of a former City player) being issued with shares in Exeter City a decade earlier, it was announced in 1955 that trumpeter Eddie Calvert had also become a shareholder in the club. In this case the family link was through cousin Frank Houghton who had recently joined the Grecians from Newcastle United.

Both men were from Preston where Mr Calvert had been born Richard Bryce in 1922. Starting with the Preston Town Band he became known as "The Man with the Golden Trumpet" and was the first British instrumentalist to achieve two 'number ones' with Oh, Mein Papa and Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White. He later moved to South Africa where he died in August 1978 aged fifty-six.