Liverpool principal owner John Henry has seen his fortune increase by around £600m in the last 12 months, according to the latest Forbes billionaires ranking.
The US magazine published its annual rich list on Tuesday, with the 2022 global rankings placing the Fenway Sports Group owner, 72, as the 822nd richest man in the world with a net worth of $3.6bn (£2.75bn), a figure up from the $2.8bn (£2.14bn) he was worth in the 2021 list. That rise was enough to see him climb 289 places from the position he held in 2021 of 1,111.
Henry, who made his fortune in commodities trading in the 1980s from his trading firm J.W. Henry & Co, made the leap into sports ownership in the 1989 when purchasing the Minor League Baseball team the Tucson Toros. He sold that team in 1990 but would return as a team owner in 1999 when he purchased the Florida Marlins baseball team. Henry would go on to sell the Marlins in 2002 to pave the way for a takeover of the Boston Red Sox with his New England Sports Ventures business (now FSG).
