Hull in 2013 and repeated in 2014 and 2015. The Allam sponsorship has continued until the 2019 event when his sponsorship of the event was renewed. Philanthropy In 2016 he donated £7 million towards the cost of a £25 million medical building at the University of Hull. In November 2019, he donated around £8 million to Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for the creation of a diabetes treatment and research centre based at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital. He was also a donor to the Labour Party. Death Allam died of cancer in Kingston upon Hull, on 2 December 2022, at the age of 83. References 1939 births 2022 deaths Businesspeople from Cairo Egyptian football chairmen and investors Egyptian emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Hull City A.F.C. directors and chairmen Alumni of the University of Hull Ain Shams University alumni Labour Party (UK) donors