Owen John Oyston (born in County Durham in January 1934) is a controversial self-made multimillionaire English businessman who is the majority owner of Blackpool F.C., a lifelong Labour Party supporter and who was convicted of rape in 1996 and jailed for six years.
Oyston moved with his family to Blackpool aged two where he was educated at St. Mary's Catholic College. He left school at sixteen and started his career as an actor. He briefly starre...
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Owen John Oyston (born in County Durham in January 1934) is a controversial self-made multimillionaire English businessman who is the majority owner of Blackpool F.C., a lifelong Labour Party supporter and who was convicted of rape in 1996 and jailed for six years.
Oyston moved with his family to Blackpool aged two where he was educated at St. Mary's Catholic College. He left school at sixteen and started his career as an actor. He briefly starred as a barrister in Granada TV's 1970s afternoon television courtroom drama series, Crown Court.
Oyston had moved to London in the 1950s where he started his business career as a sewing-machine salesman. However the firm failed, and in 1960 he moved home to Blackpool where he had considerable success in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the estate agency business. By the mid-1980s Oyston's Estate Agents had become the largest firm of family-owned estate agents in the United Kingdom (UK). In 1987 he sold Oyston's Estate Agents for an estimated £37...
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