THE MODERN MILLIONAIRE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1924, Page 5

THE MODERN MILLIONAIRE

A BRADFORD MAN’S FORTUNE. WALKED INSTEAD OF IvtDTORING. LONDON, Oct. l 4& We have heard before to-day of thte millionaire who preferred to walk rather than spend a penny on a ffffs tare. His kind still exists, and ojlb of the modest make of the millionaire has just -died in Bradford, where lie made his money out of New Zealand in part since he was in the wool trade. Tins was Mr John Reddihough, wool merchant, who died suddenly while staying at Southport. Born at Oxenhope in 1841, lie -began business on his own account at 21 years of age, and at his death wa,s perhaps the big l gest man in the wool trade, and the least known. •?' t /Ur i° us i.y he was born in the same village as two other wool magnates—toir James Hill and Sir James Roberts. Although Mr Reddihough was re l garded as the first of half-a-dozen woo-l millionaires engaged in Bradford, he was the least talked about, for while! all the others have boiight castles ahd big estates in Scotland and ;other parts of the kingdom, Mr Reddihough lived a quiet, unostentatious life at Beech Mount, Baildon, near Bradford. He did not even have a motor-cat, preferring to walk or use trams or trains. He was the son of a small farmer, and worked as a journeyman tailor till he was 21. Leaving the ■tailoring, he began as a' dealer in waste, which he collected from flic local mills, and by diligent attention to business he worked himself intb the front rank of wool merchants, with interests in all parts of the world. His only other interests were in connection with the Wesleyan Cliuicli. He was a regular attender at Baildon Wesleyan Chapel, and a generous supsupporter of charitable causes. He was reputed to he a millionaire several times over.