and from 2000 was in a relationship with Sylvia Spruck Wrigley. Stanford died from pancreatic cancer in Estonia, on 24 February 2022, at the age of 67. Chess Stanford was a chess enthusiast. He sponsored a Redbus knockout Grandmaster chess event each Easter in Southend since 1999. Following the death of his uncle, Jack Spiegel, who had for many years organised the annual Southend Easter chess congress, Stanford inaugurated a Jack Spiegel Memorial Invitational Tournament, also at Easter and in Southend. The first Redbus event and the first Spiegel Memorial event were each won by James Plaskett. References Reference bibliography 1954 births 2022 deaths English company founders People from Southend-on-Sea