English Football Pioneer, Player and Manager. Known as "The Father of Italian Football" and the founder of the Associazione Calcio Milan football club (commonly known as A. C. Milan), he was born in Nottingham, England as one of nine children that grew up on modern-day 191 Mansfield Road. By the age of 13, he was a keen footballer, despite mainly working as a lace warehouse assistant within the city. In 1891, he moved to Turin, Italy to work for Edoardo Bosio, a textile merchant that had close ties with the lace manufacturer Kilpin worked for. That same year, Bosio founded the Internazionale F.C. Torino, believed to be oldest football club in Italy. Kilpin quickly took part in playing with the team, becoming the first Englishman to play for a football club outside of the country. The team took part in the first two Italian Football Championship games, losing both times to Genoa in the final faceoff. In 1899, he moved to Milan and formed the Milan Football & Cricket Club (modern-day Associazione Calcio/A. C. Milan) with himself being the manager, David Allison being team captain, and fellow football pioneer and businessman Alfred Edwards as the club's first president. Two years later, they would win that year's Italian Football Championship for the first time, with two more championship wins following in 1906 and 1907. In 1908, he retired from the sport, appearing a total of 23 times and scoring seven goals in his 17-year career, nine of them were spent with MFCC. In 1905, three years before his permanent leave, he met and married Maria Capua. After more than a decade into their marriage, Kilpin passed away from medical issues that were plagued by years of smoking and drinking. Around three quarters of a century after his passing, an amateur Italian historian tracked down Kilpin's grave, which at the time was left unmarked in the Protestant section of the Milan cemetery in which he is interred in. After the rediscovery of the location of his remains, the A. C. Milan club paid for a new tombstone on his site as a way to commemorate their centennial in 1999. On the 2nd of November 2010, following a largely-signed petition, his remains were exhumed and re-interred in the Famedio, the main marble-and-stone building in front of the cemetery that holds the remains of the city's highest-honored personalities.