Background
He was born on 23 August 1943 in Middleton, Heysham, Lancashire.
He was born on 23 August 1943 in Middleton, Heysham, Lancashire.
Boler started as a 16-year-old trainee at the multinational Unilever. Boler went on to found Limelight, a kitchen and bathrooms business, making £40 million when he sold lieutenant Limelight, later known as the HomeForm Group, included household names such as Dolphin Showers, Kitchens Direct, Moben Kitchens and Sharps bedrooms.
Homeform went into administration in 2011, and had quotes honoured by brand Wren Kitchens to protect consumer confidence in United Kingdom kitchen companies.
Boler was the largest shareholder of Manchester City football club In later life he turned his attention to conservation in South Africa, creating the Tswalu game reserve in the Kalahari Desert.
He bought dozens of farms covering more than a thousand square kilometres to create the reserve. His will specified that Nicky Oppenheimer, the South African entrepreneur, should have first refusal on Tswalu, and the Oppenheimer family now owns and operates lieutenant
Boler died in Johannesburg of a heart attack in 1998, aged 55, while traveling to his game reserve.
Another son, Nick, died in 2004, aged 33. Boler also had two daughters Sarah Jane and Camilla.