John Moores, Jr.

John Moores Jr., CBE, DL, (22 November 1928 – 22 May 2012) was a British businessman, farmer and philanthropist. He was the eldest son of businessman Sir John Moores CBE who founded the Littlewoods company. He became Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of the family firm in 1968. John Moores also served as 2nd Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 1994, after previously serving as the university's First Pro-Chancellor and chairman of the board of Governors from 1992. Littlewoods John Moores joined Littlewoods in 1946. He became a director of the organisation in 1950 and was Chair of the Littlewoods Equal Opportunities strategy committee from the mid 1960s until October 1996 after wanting to promote equal opportunities in the firm following his return from the United States after a two-year academic stay. In 1968 he became the executive director and deputy chairman but resigned on 11 February 1971 after a disagreement with his father, whilst remaining on the board of directors. Later life John Moores resigned as a director at Littlewoods in October 1996 after 50 years of working for the firm to spend time breeding Aberdeen-Angus Cattle at his farm in Formby, Merseyside, which he and his wife second wife Jane began in 1964. He was a member of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, of which he later became president and in March 2012 was the first of its members to be awarded the society's Hugh Watson Lifetime Achievement Award. He continued to promote equality in Liverpool just as he had done in the company. He chaired the Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services until 1986, help to establish the organisation 'Priority' which helps disadvantaged children, and established 'South Liverpool Personnel' which helps the city's black community to find jobs. For his charitable work in Merseyside, he was awarded a CBE in 1993, and made a Freeman of the City of Liverpool on 16 March 1994. He received the award in a ceremony on 7 October 1994.