Edward Pears Stobart, always known as Eddie and sometimes Steady Eddie, was born on April 18 1929. His devout Methodist parents, John and Adelaide, farmed a 32-acre smallholding with eight cows at ...

Eddie Stobart at the 2011 funeral of his son Edward, who took over the haulage side of the business in 1976 - Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Eddie Stobart, who has died aged 95, was a Cumbrian ...