Tim Martin (businessman)
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Tim Martin (born April 1955) is the founder and chairman of the British pub chain Wetherspoons.
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[edit] Biographic details
Timothy Randall Martin was born April 1955 in Northern Ireland. He was educated at eleven different schools in Northern Ireland and New Zealand, including Campbell College. He studied law at Nottingham University. His father worked for Guinness and became Malaysian marketing director. His parents divorced shortly before he went to university.
He has been married to Felicity since 1975; together they have four children.
[edit] Wetherspoons
Martin was studying for a law degree, but did not enjoy doing so. He thought that he would be able to own and manage a pub, and offered to buy one. On his first day he was unable to let the cleaning staff into the building and had to call a locksmith, upon finally gaining entry, customers had arrived and had to be let into an unprepared pub, still uncleaned from the previous day. This set of mishaps inspired Tim to name the pub after a school teacher in New Zealand (whose surname was Wetherspoon) who could not control his class and thus founded the British pub chain Wetherspoons.
[edit] Trivia
Martin is six foot six inches tall, broad shouldered and has his hair cut in a mullet. He hates fashionable clothes, dinner parties, foreign holidays and the Euro.
He states that his hobbies are drinking beer, playing squash and weight training.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Observer Profile
- Tim Martin CatererSearch 100 Profile (voted 5th most influential person in UK pub industry in 2005)
