Facts:   - death date: 2008 1943      - birth date: 1943    - name: gerard john -lrb- `` gerry '' -rrb- white    - nationality: english    - death place: thurstaston    - birth place: huyton , merseyside   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of gerry white .
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gerry white -lrb- 1943 -- 2008 -rrb- was a wealthy english born businessman and self-made millionaire .the son of gerard and martha white , gerry started life as butcher and established hurstwood meats in birkenhead on the wirral .he later established reddington finance group .he once owned cammell laird shipyard in birkenhead ; he purchased it for # 10m and sold it for # 100m in 2007 .in 1999 , he led a consortium to purchase everton f.c. .he was chairman of wirral chamber of commerce group .he died age 64 in september 2008 .