Sir John Moores CBE (25 January 1896 – 25 September 1993) was a British businessman and philanthropist.
John Moores was born into a working-class family in Eccles, near Salford, Lancashire on 25 January 1896. He was one of eight children and the eldest of four sons. He left primary school in 1910 and became a messenger boy at the Manchester Post Office but was soon accepted in a course at the Post Office School of Telegraphy. This enabled him, in...
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Sir John Moores CBE (25 January 1896 – 25 September 1993) was a British businessman and philanthropist.
John Moores was born into a working-class family in Eccles, near Salford, Lancashire on 25 January 1896. He was one of eight children and the eldest of four sons. He left primary school in 1910 and became a messenger boy at the Manchester Post Office but was soon accepted in a course at the Post Office School of Telegraphy. This enabled him, in 1912 to join the Commercial Cable Company as a junior operator. He was in the Navy in World War one as a wireless operator, being stationed at Aberdeen in 1916 before serving elsewhere.
When he came into cash, most of it was sent to his widowed mother, Louisa, a mill worker. His father, also called John, was a bricklayer, but he developed a drink problem and died in January 1919 at the age of 47 of Tuberculosis. John Moores jnr was demobilised from the Navy two months later.
After the war telegraphy took him away again. He carried on working...
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