Betty Suenson-Taylor
Lady Grantchester, Betty Suenson-Taylor (née Betty Moores) is the head of the Moores family and the 84-year-old daughter of Sir John Moores, founder of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing businesses.
She married Kenneth Bent Suenson-Taylor, 2nd Baron Grantchester on 12 April 1947. As a result of her marriage, Betty Moores was styled as Baroness Grantchester on 2 July 1976. [1]
She was director of Littlewoods between 1977 and 1997[1] and is credited steering the company back on to an even keel after a turbulent late 1980s and early 1990s.[2] The family started to sell off stores in 1998 and the pools business in 2000; those proceeds and past dividends are worth £445m. Another windfall came in 2002 when the mail order business was sold to the Barclay brothers for £750m. [3]
Affiliations
- Trustee of the Family Education Trust since 2004, executive committee member in 2003[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Betty Moores, The Peerage, accessed 3 April 2012
- ↑ Kevin Cahill, The elite, guardian.co.uk, 11 April 1999, acc 3 April 2012
- ↑ Gary Bainbridge, Betty Moores: Littlewoods heiress, Liverpool Echo, Jan 1 (year cited is 2008 but this doesn't match text dates), acc 3 April 2012
- ↑ Family Education Trust Report on annual conference, Bulletin No. 116 Summer 2004
