14 Facts About Philip Carter

Sir Philip David Carter, CBE was a football director, life president of Everton Football Club and former director of Littlewoods.

Philip Carter's parents had married in Liverpool on 23 December 1920.

Shortly after his family moved back to Liverpool, Philip Carter visited Everton Football Club's Goodison Park home for the first time.

Philip Carter later became a store manager, then a senior buyer, and was appointed to the main board by Moores in 1965.

In 1976 Moores made Philip Carter managing director, a position he held until taking early retirement in 1983.

Philip Carter has had three spells with Everton Football Club.

Philip Carter's first began in July 1975 when he joined the board of directors, after being invited by John Moores.

Two years later Philip Carter became vice-chairman after Moores retired from the board.

Philip Carter was involved with the formation of the Premier League.

When Peter Johnson purchased the club in late 1993, Philip Carter vacated his position only to be asked to return for a second spell by Johnson's buyer Bill Kenwright in 1998 where he remained in the position for six years before opting to retire, aged 77.

Philip Carter voiced his approval of Everton FC relocating out of the city of Liverpool.

Philip Carter was awarded a CBE in the 1982 New Years Honours List and later a knighthood in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Philip Carter married Harriet Rita Evans, a machinist at a glove factory, at St Edmund's Roman Catholic Church, Waterloo, Liverpool, on 25 May 1946.

On 23 April 2015, Philip Carter died at his home in Noctorum Road, Birkenhead, after a battle against liver cancer which had been diagnosed the previous year.