Farmar, Tony

This is a co-subject for the entry on Smurfit, (John) Jefferson. View the original entry.

Smurfit, (John) Jefferson Snr (1909–77), industrialist and businessman, was born 24 March 1909, the son of a Sunderland shipyard worker. He was ten when his father, John, died painfully at home from diabetes, leaving a widow and three small children. To support her family Ellen…