David Quayle

David Andrew Quayle (19 August 1936 – 6 April 2010)[1] was a British businessman best known as co-founder of the UK-based DIY chain B&Q.[2]

David Quayle
Born(1936-08-19)August 19, 1936
Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
DiedApril 6, 2010(2010-04-06) (aged 73)
EducationBrighton College
OccupationBusinessman
Known forCo-founder of B&Q
Spouse(s)Chrissie
RelativesRichard Block (brother-in-law)

Biography

Quayle was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire and went to school at Brighton College in 1950. He returned to the school to be a governor in the 1990s.[3]

Quayle worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969 in Southampton. Their idea of large warehouse-style DIY stores copied the style already successfully operating in other European countries, but was unknown in the UK and B&Q soon became the largest retail suppliers of DIY products in the UK.[4]

He left B&Q in 1982 and moved on to other companies, working in Television South, City Vision, Ritz Video, Granada Group and founded the Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery in Eastleigh in 1999.[2]

Quayle died unexpectedly on 6 April 2010 on a cruise with his second wife Chrissie.[5]

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References
  1. Obituary in The Times
  2. "B&Q founder David Quayle had fatal heart attack on cruise". Daily Echo. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  3. "David Quayle (C. 1950-55), Co-founder of B&Q". Old Brightonians. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-19. Retrieved 10 February 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "David Quayle". Daily Telegraph. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2019.


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