Arthur W. V. Reeve

Arthur Wellesley Vivian Reeve (2 December 1912 – 21 May 2002) was a New Zealand author and The Scout Association of New Zealand’s international commissioner who was awarded the Bronze Wolf Award for exceptional services to Scouting.

Personal life Reeve was born in Auckland on 2 December 1912, the son of Ethel Mary Whitta and her husband Benjamin Alfred Reeve. He was educated at Eastbourne and West Christchurch Primary Schools. and they had three children. He became chairman of the Wellington branch of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. He died in Wellington on 21 May 2002 from cancer. in Christchurch in 1926. He later became its scoutmaster. He resigned from St Matthew's Scout Group in 1936 (letter dated 11 December 1936 in the troop log book)

In 1979, The World Organization of the Scout Movement presented Reeve with its highest award, its Bronze Wolf Award, awarded in recognition of "outstanding service by an individual to the World Scout Movement".

Rugby Reeve was an avid follower of rugby union, and a life member of the Wellington Rugby Football Union. He donated a trophy, the Arthur Reeve Cup, which is contested in the Wellington Secondary Schools rugby competition in the under-80 kg grade. It was first awarded in 1989.

After injuring his leg playing rugby at 19, he joined the Scottish Harriers, and was elected vice president.

Reeve was a rugby columnist for over 23 years for Rugby News and then the Sunday Times. He wrote a history of college rugby, Cradle of Rugby, published in 1992.