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William Stobart
William Stobart was the executive chairman of Eddie Stobart Logistics Limited until 2017, and former Chief Operating Officer of the Stobart Group.
He has two children Edward (Edd) and April Stobart. He currently lives at Peover Superior in Cheshire.
He owns 3.39% of the Stobart Group as of April 2014 and also owns a 27% share of W A Developments Holdings Ltd.
Early life.
William was born in Cumberland (England) in November 1961, the fourth child of Eddie and Nora Stobart
1878. His father, William Stobart, was the Rector, his mother was Susan Elizabeth (née Morris), the daughter of a farmer in Rutland, and he had two elder sisters. Soon after his birth his father was appointed Rector of Bermondsey in London and the family moved to London. He was educated at Rugby School and as a Bell Scholar at Trinity College Cambridge, obtaining his BA in 1901 (MA in 1904). He also studied briefly at Greifswald University in Germany and in Edinburgh, before becoming a