Stuart Garner
Born
Stuart James Garner

November 1968 (age 55)
Derbyshire, England
OccupationBusinessman
TitleFormer owner and CEO, Norton Motorcycle Company
Term2008-2020
SpouseSusie Lodge (m.2018)
Children4
Donington Hall in 2008

Stuart James Garner (born November 1968) is a British businessman, convicted pension fraudster, and was the owner and CEO of the Norton Motorcycle Company from 2008 until it went into administration in 2020.[1][2]

Early life

Garner was born in Derbyshire in November 1968.[3] He left school without qualifications at the age of 16.[4]

Career

He is a former gamekeeper, share trader and firework seller.[3]

He acquired the Norton Motorcycle Company in 2008.[3]

In 2013, he bought the 1790 Gothic Donington Hall and its 26-acre Donington estate from BMI Airlines, and it became the Norton head office, as well as his family home.[3]

In June 2020, the Pension Ombudsman ruled that as a pension scheme trustee, Garner had "acted dishonestly and in breach of his duty".[5] In December 2020, he was refused permission to appeal against the Pension Ombudsman's ruling that he must pay back £14 million missing from the Norton pension fund.[1] Garner has also had a personal bankruptcy petition filed against him by Leicester City Council.[1]

Personal life

In 2016, he bought the Priest House Hotel, adjacent to the Donington Hall estate, on the banks of the River Trent.[3]

Garner married Susie Lodge in summer 2018, and has three children from a previous marriage.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Norton Motorcycles ex-owner ordered to pay back missing £14m in pensions". The Guardian. 20 December 2020.
  2. "Norton Motorcycles – was it a fraud from the start? Part one". SuperBike Magazine.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Strachan, Ian (4 September 2018). "Norton boss Stuart Garner says UK better prepared for Brexit than media claim". LeicestershireLive.
  4. "Entrepreneurs' Forum |". entrepreneursforum.net.
  5. "Norton Motorcycles: Former owner told to repay millions". 25 June 2020 via www.bbc.co.uk.
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