Nicholas Horsley [SEP] father
Nicholas Horsley
George Nicholas Seward Horsley (April 21 1934 to January 18 2004), known as Nicholas Horsley, was a leading Hull businessman, and chairman of Northern Foods.
Personal life & family.
Nicholas Horsley was born to a wealthy business family in Yorkshire, the second of the five children (three sons, two daughters) of Susan Howitt and Alec Horsley, the founder of Northern Foods. He attended Keswick grammar school, Bootham school, York, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated with
a third-class degree. Though his father (a Quaker) preferred conscientious objection, Nicholas did national service in Germany without being commissioned.
A passionate Yorkshireman, womaniser, tennis player and gambler, Nicholas was married three times. Firstly to Valerie Edwards (a Welsh typist); they had three children, with whom Nicholas became estranged, named Ashley Horsley, Sebastian Horsley and Jason Horsley. After their divorce Horsley married Sabitha Sarkar in 1975 (divorcing 1987) and Alwyne Law in 1998. His first wife did not