Freddie Williams (businessman)
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Freddie Williams (businessman)
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Freddie "Fearless" Sidney Williams was a Scottish businessman, gambler and bookmaker. Born in the Ayrshire mining village of Cumnock, he was spared a career as a miner due to ill health at the age of 15 and went on to work for local soft drinks company Currie's of Auchinleck. Following a successful management buyout, and subsequent sale, Williams became a millionaire. It was at Currie's that he first took to gambling. For years he was a boomaker's-runner, before taking up his first bookmaking pi
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Scottish bookmaker and businessman (1942–2008)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Williams_(businessman)
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2023-06-19T19:28:18Z
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