Peter Moores (businessman)

Sir Peter Moores CBE DL (9 April 1932 – 23 March 2016) was a British businessman, art collector and philanthropist who was chairman of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing business in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1980.

[1] His father, Sir John Moores, was the founder of the Littlewoods company, though the family no longer owns it.

In 1994 the foundation enabled a permanent Transatlantic Slave Trade Gallery at the Liverpool Merseyside Maritime Museum.

[4] The Foundation began a variety of charitable support initiatives in Barbados in 1973 – these activities became a separately constituted organization in 2011.

[7] It awarded scholarships to young British singers, including Amanda Roocroft and Simon Keenlyside.