Football club owners, construction bosses and entrepreneurs make Yorkshire’s Rich List 2017

Football club owners, construction bosses and entrepreneurs have made this year’s Sunday Times Rich List for Yorkshire.

The wealth of the top 20 increased by £400m, with only Jet2 owner Philip Meeson seeing a decline in fortune.

Sadly, Ken Morrison who made the list last year has since passed away, and the Shepherd family have also not been included in this year’s list.

This year’s Sunday Times Rich List will be released in full on the weekend, but for now here’s a list of Yorkshire’s contenders:

1. Robert Miller and Marie-Chantal and family

American billionaire Richard Miller and his wife Marie Chantal, owners of the 36,000-acre Gunnerside Estate in Swaledale remain in the top spot. Miller, worth £1.58bn and 84 later this month, co-founded the Hong Kong-based Duty Free Shoppers (DFS) chain with Alan Parker in 1960, specialising in airport shops, which are now located at airports across the globe. The family includes daughter Marie Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, who sits on the board of DFS . They were new to the list in 2015 following the sale of Miller’s private equity business, Squadron Capital.

Worth £1.58bn

2. Eddie and Malcolm Healey

Founders of the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, currently undergoing hundreds of millions of pounds of investment.

Eddie started work in his family’s paint company, before launching DIY chain, Status Discount. The company was sold in 1980 to MFI, where Healey worked until 1982. After that, Healey and his brother Malcom bought a derelict site in Sheffield, where he built Meadowhall Shopping Centre. In 1999, he sold it to British Land for £1.17bn, a profit of £420m. Eddie’s son Mark owns £250m of wind farm assets in Scotland. The pair’s West Retail Group, which includes Wren Kitchens and the electronics retailer Ebuyer, enjoyed a record year in 2015, with sales soaring to £446m. Malcolm lives on a sprawling East Yorkshire estate.

Worth £1.48bn (up £50m)

3. Tony Murray and family

The 97 year-old businessman owns Leeds-based Andrew Sykes Group, a heating and air conditioning equipment company, as well as London Security, a fire protection business of which his sons Jean-Jacques, 48, and Jean-Pierre, 46, are directors. He is the oldest person on this year’s list. Prior to going into business, Murray served in the French army before moving to Britain and becoming a RAF navigator.

Worth £1.17bn (up £120m)

4. Lord Kirkham and family

Founder of Doncaster’s DFS Furniture, which he sold for £500m to Advent in 2010, Graham Kirkham is the son of an Edlington miner and now has a large stake in Iceland as well as fish and chip shops in Yorkshire, having acquired chain Whitby’s in 2012.

Worth £1.15bn

5.Paul Sykes

Along with the Healeys helped develop Meadowhall shopping centre, and owns internet firm Planet Online. A divorce from wife Valeria in 2015 clearly didn’t dent his fortune, which was up £20m. He is a known UKIP donor.

Worth: £710m

6. Terry Bramall CBE and family

Doncaster businessman and former chairman of regeneration business Keepmoat, Bramhall received a CBE in 2013 for services to charity.

Worth £425m

7. Roderick Evans and family

North Yorkshire-based owner of the Evans property group. Developed Minerva and Capitol House, White Rose Shopping centre

Worth £400m (up £50m)

8. Jack Tordoff and family

Founder of the Bradford-based car dealership chain JCT600, the family business has 50 dealerships selling 18 of the world’s most respected brands such as Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW/MINI, Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Vauxhall and Volkswagen. The group now employs a workforce of 2,300 people.

Worth £395m (up £12m)

9. Peter Wilkinson

Technology tycoon, developed companies including Planet Online, Sports Internet and InTechnology.

Worth £385m

10. Philip Meeson

Leeds businessman behind Dart Group, owners of Jet2 and Fowler Welch. Only person whose wealth dropped on this year’s list, but this was offset by the major growth of Jet2, announcing hundreds of jobs and expansion last year, apparently undeterred by Brexit.

Worth £296m (down £90m)

Also on the list are:

11. Alan Lewis: owner of the Globe Mills in Slaithwaite West Yorkshire. Worth £285m

12. Dean and Janet Hoyle: Owned and then sold Card Factory in 2010. Worth £284m

13. John Guthrie and family: Chairman of Broadland Properties, based in Scarborough. Worth £281m (up £21m)

14. David Hood: Founded Bradford electronics firm Pace and Multiflight, an air charter business based at Leeds Bradford. Worth £275m.

15. Malcolm Walker and family (Iceland): Owner of frozen food chain Iceland. Worth £259m (up £33m)

16. Assem Allam and family: Egyptian owners of Hull City. Worth £250m (up £10m)

17. Paul and Johnny Caddick and family: Owners of The Caddick Group and PRS developer Moda Living. Worth £250m.

18. Doug Gregory – Owner of Symphony, Leeds kitchen, bedroom and bathroom retailer. Worth £250m (up £75m)

19. Steve Parkin: Owner of Leeds-based Clipper Logistics. Worth £250m (up £68m)

20. Malcolm Walker and family: VictoriaPlum.com: Worth £232m (up £22m)

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