Christopher Needler (4 September 1944 – 23 December 2022) was a British businessman who was the Chairman of Hull City.
Needler was born on 4 September 1944, near Kingston upon Hull, and attended Repton School in Derbyshire.
He spent five years qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CPA)[citation needed] and three additional years as a mature student at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[citation needed] In July 1997, when he relinquished his family's long-held control over the Hull City Football Club, the Needler family's control of the club was at an end.
[1] Once retired from all his previous businesses, in 2005 he began a debt counselling company called DebtWatchers.