Remembering Michael Wynn Jones
Former Norwich City owner and majority shareholder Michael Wynn Jones dies aged 85
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Michael Wynn Jones, husband of television cook Delia Smith and Norwich City’s former majority shareholder, has died peacefully at home aged 85. The couple were leading figures at the club for 28 years, overseeing several promotions to the Premier League before stepping back and becoming honorary life presidents. Norwich City paid tribute to Jones and sent condolences to Smith, their family and loved ones, noting the family’s gratitude for care from St Elizabeth Hospice’s community nursing team. Outside football, Jones worked as a journalist, editor, writer and publisher.
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Wynn Jones met Delia Smith in 1969 while he was deputy editor of the Daily Mirror’s Mirror Magazine; he gave her her first cookery-writing role, and they married two years later.
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The couple became Norwich City’s majority shareholders in 1997 and sold their stakes in October 2024, after which they became honorary life presidents.
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Former Norwich forward Darren Huckerby said Wynn Jones “stayed out of the limelight but all at [the club] owe him so much”; fellow ex-player Darren Eadie called him “a kind and caring gentleman”.
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Norwich City asked for the family’s privacy to be respected at this difficult time.
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