Tom Hibbert

Tom Hibbert (c1912-1995)

1995 Died. 'Retired textile chief Mr Tom Hibbert has died aged 83. Mr Hibbert was born in Saddleworth and educated at King James’ School Almondbury before training as an accountant with Armitage Norton in Huddersfield. A member of the territorial army he was called up two days before the outbreak of Second World War. He took part in the Normandy landings as captain of a company of Huddersfield men in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. He was promoted to major and joined the staff college at Camberley in September 1944 before serving as a staff officer in Holland in 1945-46. Mr Hibbert joined Bradford worsted and mohair spinner Jeremiah Ambler Ltd as chief accountant in 1946 before rising to finance director and later chairman and managing director. He became chairman and managing director of British Mohair Spinners formed in 1971 when Ambler acquired Goughs of Keighley Ltd and C. F. Taylor of Shipley. A past president of the Worsted Spinners Federation he was the first chairman of the Confederation of British Wool Textiles and the first chairman and life member of the International Mohair Association President of the West Yorkshire Society of Chartered Accountants, in 1962 he wrote a book In Search of Mohair. Mr Hibbert lived at Shipley but has family living in Honley He leaves a widow and three sons.'

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