- Source of Wealth: Business (Fashion)
- Age: 79
- Marital Status: Married (David Ash)
- Full Name: Dame Margaret Barbour DBE DL
- Nationality: British
- Date of Birth: February 1940
- Ethnicity: English
- Occupation: Businesswoman
- Education: University of Stirling
- Children: 1 (Helen Mary)
South Shields clothes company J Barbour made a £10.1 million profit on £74.5m sales in 2009.
With £43m assets, it is worth £100m. Its famous jackets were invented in 1909. Barbour, 71, gave up teaching to take over the reins in the early 1970s when her husband died.
The Sunday Times Rich List added £10m for other assets and past dividends to Barbour and her family net worth. She currently has a net worth of $1.54 billion.