Background
William Adderley was born in February 1948 in Leeds, Yorkshire.
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William Adderley was born in February 1948 in Leeds, Yorkshire.
Adderley was a manager at a Woolworths store in Coalville, but left in 1979 after the company wanted him to relocate to its Skegness store. In 1984, they opened their first home furnishings store, calling it Dunelm. In October 2013, The Guardian commented that Adderley had become the largest private shareholder in Marks & Spencer, having built a stake valued at £250 million.
According to Forbes, as of December 2014, Adderley and family own 53% of the shares in Dunelm, giving a Netto worth of $1.7 billion.