Former textile chief Richard Lord dies aged 93

ONE of the great Irish textile industrialists, Richard Lord, has died. He was 93.

Mr Lord, who was a former director of the Sunbeam Wolsey company in Blackpool, Cork, and a managing director of Industrial Yarns and Seafield Gentex, which had major spinning plants in Youghal, on the Kinsale Road in Cork, and in Athlone, died peacefully at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork on Thursday.

He is survived by his wife, Doreen, and seven of their eight children – Judy (Daly), Tom, Mary (Inglis), Sally (Gleeson), Anne (Woodsend), Richard and Peter. John, a stockbroker, died several years ago.