Stephen Eckersley Boler (23 August 1943 – 1998) was an English entrepreneur who founded a business dynasty and in later life became a conservationist in South Africa.
[citation needed] He made his first fortune in the 1970s, selling cut-price tyre and exhaust systems[2] together with business partner Tom Farmer, who went on to launch the Kwik Fit chain.
[3] Boler went on to found Limelight, a kitchen and bathrooms business, making £40 million when he sold it.
Boler had separated from his wife, and his son, whom he sent to the independent school Millfield,[6] recalls him as teaching lessons of working hard.
[8] Boler died in Johannesburg of a heart attack in 1998, aged 55, while traveling to his game reserve.