of the AIM-listed company SysGroup PLC, which he originally founded, and remains on the board of a number of smaller private companies and charitable trusts. Manchester United Edelson has been a non-executive Director of Manchester United F.C. since 1982. He was appointed to the board by Martin Edwards to replace Matt Busby, who had become club president earlier the same year. Edelson joined James Gulliver – who had built up the Edwards family meat business into the £4 billion Argyll Group – and Alan Gibson – the son of James Gibson, who was Manchester United's chairman from 1932 to 1951 and whose loans saved the club from extinction. Edelson was one of the founder members of the Manchester United Foundation and remains a trustee on the Foundation's Board as well as being involved in a number of other charities. Miss World In 1980 Edelson was invited by Eric Morley to become a judge for the Miss World Pageant and he went on to become one of the few people to have judged three times. Over the coming years, together with Morley he adjudicated alongside fellow judges such as Shirley Bassey, Plácido Domingo, Susan George, Bruce Forsyth as well as Dodi Fayed before Fayed died along with Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris in August 1997. Publications Manchester United and M.E. (December 2020) References Living people Manchester United F.C. directors and chairmen 1944 births People educated at Bury Grammar School