 Currently Executive Chairman of DFS Furniture Company Ltd, Kirkham is a strong political and financial supporter of the Conservative Party, and is one of South Yorkshire's richest men, with a personal fortune estimated at £315 million.Adopted at the age of three weeks, he is the only son of Edlington miner Tom Kirkham and his wife Elsie.He once said of his adopted parents, "My whole life has been the luck of going to a good family."