Early Years
Arthur was born John Timothy Rothwell to a working-class family in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Later, the family moved to Aldershot, Hampshire as Arthur's father became stationed in the British Army there.
As a teenager, Arthur bought a bike and became a member of a biker gang. He joined the British army, serving in the Royal Hampshire Regiment until he sustained an injury in parachute training.
In the early 1970s he rode a custom-built Triumph Thunderbird, attended free festivals such as Windsor free festival and Stonehenge free festival and became head of a biker gang called the Gravediggers (later renamed the Saddletramps). Arthur was given the nickname 'King John' due to holding parties at the ruined castle at Odiham which they called 'King John's Castle'.
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