02-Dec-2009
Morning Advertiser - Trade veteran Richard Butterworth dies
One of the UK pub trade’s best-known figures, Richard Butterworth, has died following a short illness at the age of 64.
Butterworth spent more than 40 years in the trade working in pub operations for Wilson’s Brewery in Manchester, Boddington’s and Greenalls.
On his retirement he moved to the south-west where he ran Pub Is The
Hub and also sat on the regional management board of the BII.
He came from a well-known trade family in which his brother, John, worked for Yates’s Wine Lodges and north-west drinks wholesaler LWC, while another brother, Michael, worked in brewing with Wilson’s and Robinsons.
Pub Is The Hub director John Longden said: “He was an immensely likeable man who went about his work in a calm efficient way, particularly Pub Is The Hub, where he put the movement on the map in the south-west.
“He was a gentleman and a true professional who performed diligently wherever he was called on to work. He was a real star.”
Butterworth leaves a wife, Gloria. His funeral will take place at the parish church in Wendron near Helston, Cornwall, at 12.30pm today (Thursday 3 December).
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