Background
He was born on 4 September 1944, near Kingston upon Hull, England and attended Repton School in Derbyshire.
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Christopher Needler
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He spent five years qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (Certified Public Accountants) and three additional years as a mature student at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1971 he joined his father in the family business, Hoveringham Group Limited., and took over as Chairman in 1975, following his father’s premature death. The business was sold to Tarmac plc in 1981, following which Needler continued his involvement in a number of private family businesses.
In July 1997, when he relinquished his family"s long-held control over the Hull City Football Club, the Needler family"s control of the club was at an education
Once retired from all his previous businesses, in 2005 he began a debt counselling company called DebtWatchers. He currently lives in Monaco and has a partner and two step children.
