Eddie Stobart, founder of the famous haulage firm and committed evangelical Christian, has died aged 95.
Growing up with Methodist parents in the 1930s, Eddie came to faith himself at a young age. According to The Guardian, at 17, he preached at his local chapel for the first time – finding, as he did, that a stammer he’d had since childhood had miraculously disappeared. ‘God took me by the hand. God helped me to cure it,’ he said.
Just a few years later, in his early 20s, he began his business distributing fertiliser to local farms and in 1960, he bought his first truck – painting it in the iconic red and green. In the coming years, Eddie Stobart Ltd was to grow to be worth £280 million and include over 2,000 lorries.
