Tom Morris (businessman)

Thomas Joseph "Tom" Morris (born February 1954) is a British billionaire businessman and the founder of Home Bargains.

Thomas Joseph Morris was born in February 1954. He is the son of a shopkeeper in Liverpool's Scotland Road, and one of seven children.

He received a degree in Engineering.

Morris started the Liverpool-based discount retail chain Home Bargains in 1976, when he was 21 years old. It now has more than 300 stores, and Morris has net worth of £2.05 billion. The parent company is the privately held TJ Morris.

Morris owns 89% while his younger brother, Joe Morris, is a smaller shareholder and operations director. Three other brothers also work for the company.

Morris was worth an estimated £2.05 billion in 2014, as per the Sunday Times Rich List. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

He is married and lives in Merseyside, England.

In 2001, the Liverpool Echo reported that his son Simon worked for the company, and that his daughter Lisa and her American husband Brian run Morris Textiles, the linen warehouse.