Healey brothers top Yorkshire Rich List with £1.5bn fortune
ENTREPRENEURIAL brothers Eddie and Malcolm Healey top the Yorkshire wealth league for the second year running according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
The 25th annual Rich List, published this weekend by the Sunday Times, says the Hull-based brothers who have made their fortunes through shrewd investments in Meadowhall shopping centre and Hygena Kitchens, have a combined fortune of £1.5bn, ranking them as the 48th wealthiest people in the UK.
Replacing Morrisons supermarket grandee Sir Ken Morrison at second in the Yorkshire wealth league is DFS founder Lord Kirkham and his family with a fortune of £1.15bn while Sir Ken and his family are ranked third in Yorkshire and 83rd in the UK with £1.005bn.
Big risers in the Yorkshire Rich List are discount retailer Chris Edwards and his son, also Chris, who have seen profits at their Poundworld chain of 200 discount stores rise to £8.6m on sales of £206.5m in 2011-12 to boost their joint personal wealth to £150m, up from £80m last year.
After taking advice from financial experts in the publishing industry, the valuation of novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford’s fortune has dropped from £188m to £150m in the 2013 Sunday Times Rich List. It is believed that estimates for Taylor Bradford’s earnings had been set too high in recent years.
In fourth place is US-born, Hong Kong-based Duty Free Shops founder Robert Miller with £967m, who appears to be ranked because of his ownership of the 32,000-acre Gunnerside Estate in North Yorkshire, one of the largest private estates in the UK.
Meanwhile property and construction entrepreneurs feature prominently on the list with Keepmoat founder and Doncaster Rovers director Terry Bramall with £425m; Roderick Evans, eldest son of Monaco-based Michael Evans of Evans Property Group with an estimated £350m, the Shepherd family, owners of York’s Shepherd Group with £251m and Caddick Group owner Paul Caddick with £150m.
Julie Heselden, widow of former miner and Hesco Bastion founder Jimi, is ranked eighth in Yorkshire with £343m, followed by internet entrepreneur Peter Wilkinson with £335m and JCT600 car dealership founder Jack Tordoff and his family with £330m.
Football club owners also feature with Hull City owner and Allam Marine founder Assem Allam ranked 11th in the region with £317m, down £100m from his estimated worth last year, while Huddersfield Town chairman Dean Hoyle, founder of the Card Factory, has seen his fortune stay the same as last year at £154m.
Crombie owner Alan Lewis has £260m and Pace founder and Multiflight owner David Hood has an estimated £240m.
The 25th annual Sunday Times Rich List is published on April 21 in a special 104-page supplement, which profiles the 1,000 richest people and families in the UK and the wealthiest 250 in Ireland. The list is based on identifiable wealth, including land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. This year, a £75m fortune is required to make it into the top 1,000 in the Rich List.
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Regional rank 2013 |
Regional rank 2012 |
Name | Source of wealth | National rank | 2013 wealth | 2012 wealth |
| 1 | 1 | Eddie and Malcolm Healey | Property and kitchens | 48= | £1,500m | £1,500m |
| 2 | 3 | Lord Kirkham and family | Furniture and investment | 67= | £1,150m | £1,100m |
| 3 | 2 | Sir Ken Morrison and family | Supermarkets | 83 | £1,005m | £1,110m |
| 4 | 4 | Robert Miller | Duty-free shopping and finance | 91 | £967m | £955m |
| 5 | 5 | Tony Murray and family | Plant hire, property and fire protection | 102= | £850m | £770m |
| 6 | 6 | Terry Bramall and family | Construction | 214= | £425m | £425m |
| 7 | 10 | Roderick Evans and family | Property | 246= | £350m | £300m |
| 8 | 8 | Julie Heselden and family | Defense equipment | 254 | £343m | £343m |
| 9 | 9 | Peter Wilkinson | Internet | 258= | £335m | £302m |
| 10 | 11 | Jack Tordoff and family | Car sales | 261= | £330m | £290m |
| 11 | 7 | Assem Allam and family | Generators | 272 | £317m | £417m |
| 12 | 14 | Alan Lewis | Investment | 313= | £260m | £250m |
| 13 | 12 | The Shepherd family | Construction | 318 | £251m | £258m |
| 14 | 15 | David Hood | Electronics and aviation | 338= | £240m | £200m |
| 14 | – | Tony Bramall and family | Car sales | 417 | £192m | £144m |
| 16 | 18 | John Guthrie and family | Property | 504= | £155m | £155m |
| 17 | 19 | Dean and Janet Hoyle | Greetings cards | 514= | £154m | £154m |
| 18= | 20= | Paul Caddick and family | Construction | 522= | £150m | £150m |
| 18= | – | Chris and Chris Edwards | Discounts stores | 522= | £150m | £80m |
| 18= | 20= | Sir Robert Ogden | Property | 522= | £150m | £150m |
| 18= | 16 | Barbara Taylor Bradford | Novels | 522= | £150m | £188m |
