Christian businessman Eddie Stobart obituary

Milla Ling-Davies  |  People
Date posted:  30 Jan 2025
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Christian businessman Eddie Stobart obituary

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. In 1960, he bought his first truck – painting it in the iconic red and green. Eddie Stobart Ltd was to grow to be worth £280 million and include over 2,000 lorries.

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