The retailer had been founded by his uncle Isaac Wolfson as a mail order clothing company.

[1] In 1978 and 1979[citation needed] he was Secretary to the shadow cabinet and between 1979 and 1985 Chief of Staff of the Political Office, 10 Downing Street.

[citation needed] Knighted in 1984,[2] he was created a life peer with the title Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, of Trevose in the County of Cornwall on 26 March 1991.

One of those sons, Simon, followed in his footsteps both as head of Next and as a Conservative life peer, having been created Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise.

Having separated from Susan Wolfson several years earlier, he finally married Alicia Trevor in May 2018 at Guildford Registry Office.