11 Facts About Stafford Heginbotham

Stafford Heginbotham was a British businessman and chairman of Bradford City football club at the time of 56 deaths in the Bradford City stadium fire, which occurred immediately after the club won league promotion that mandated a costly upgrading of spectator facilities.

Stafford Heginbotham married Lorna Silverwood and had two sons, James and Simon, who still reside in West Yorkshire.

Stafford Heginbotham did not use the insurance proceeds to re-open the business, despite Bradford City Council's attempts to save the company and a proposed merger with a Welsh-based toy company.

Stafford Heginbotham would come in the dressing room before a game and offer us £200 for a few drinks that night if we won.

Stuart signed a three-year contract, but Stafford Heginbotham promised him privately that if we didn't get promotion he could leave the club.

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Stafford Heginbotham promised him a signing-on fee of £50,000, and that went into his contract, but Stafford Heginbotham didn't tell the board that this sum was tax-free.

Stafford Heginbotham told the tribunal he had promised a tax-free payment to Stuart so the club paid up on the same day.

Stafford Heginbotham resigned after the disaster, but returned for a second spell as chairman before finally leaving in January 1988.

Stafford Heginbotham's funeral was held at Bradford Cathedral in early May 1995 and he was interred at Undercliffe Cemetery overlooking Valley Parade.

The book alleged there were eight fires at his premises and Stafford Heginbotham had recouped ten million pounds at today's values in insurance before the stadium fire.

Stafford Heginbotham had a sign in his office that read: 'There are three types of people – those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened'.