Arthur Marryatt was an accountant who was heavily involved with sports administration. He was President of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association when he helped form the Olympic Council of New Zealand in 1911, and served as its first President from 1911-22. He was made an IOC Member in 1920, but in 1922 his work took him away from Wellington and he stepped away from his sports involvement, resigning from the IOC in 1925. He was the first New Zealand Member to represent only that nation on the IOC.
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