Sir Thomas Farmer (10 July 1940 – 9 May 2025) was a Scottish businessman who founded the Kwik Fit chain of garages and owned the Scottish football club Hibernian. Sir Tom was Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh from 2007 until 2015.
Early life
Farmer was born on 10 July 1940 in Leith, Edinburgh.[4][5] One of seven siblings in a devoutly Catholic family, in 1964, Farmer founded his own tyre retailing business which he sold in 1969 for £450,000. Farmer retired to the United States, but became unsatisfied and decided to find a new venture, founding Kwik Fit in 1971.[6]