RICHLIST 2010
Wealth
1 NORTHWEST
1 (1) The Duke of Westminster
2 (2) Lord Grantchester
and the Moores family
3 (6=) John Hargreaves*
4 (3) Peter Jones*
5 (4) Fred and Peter Done
6 (5) The Walker family
7 (6=) Phillip Sheppard*
8 (9=) Trevor Hemmings
9 (6=) The Warburton family
10 (-) Tom Morris*
2 NORTHERN IRELAND
1 (2) Lord Ballyedmond
2 (3=) Kevin and Michael Lagan
3 (3=) Sam Morrison
4 (5) Gerard O’Hare
5 (9) Shamus Jennings*
6= (-) Frank Boyd*
6= (10) Michael Herbert*
6= (7) John King
9 (8) Barney and Frances Eastwood
10 (-) Paul and Jeremy Eakin*
3 CHANNEL ISLANDS AND IoM
1 (2) Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay (18) £1,800m
2 (1) John Whittaker
3 (4=) Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins (24) £810m
4 (3) Jonathan and David Rowland
5 (8) Tony Buckingham
6 (4=) Jim Mellon
7 (7) The Clarke family
8 (9) Tom Scott*
9= (-) Richard Goulding
9= (-) Simon Perrée
4 WEST MIDLANDS
1 (1) John Caudwell
2 (2) Sir Anthony Bamford*
3= (6) Peter and Denise Coates
3= (3=) Felix Dennis
5 (-) Tony Murray*
6 (9) Sir Peter Rigby
7 (3=) Tony Gallagher
8 (7=) Roy Richardson*
9 (10=) Caspar MacDonald-Hall
10 (7=) Steve Morgan
5 SOUTHWEST
1 (2) Sir James Dyson*
2 (1) Lord Vestey*
3 (4) Peter Hargreaves
4 (3) Tom Singh*
5 (7) Stephen Lansdown
6 (-) Albert Heijn*
7= (5=) Harry Hyams
7= (5=) Charlotte Townshend
9= (-) Bruce Craig
10= (-) Chris Dawson
10= (8) The Marquess of Salisbury
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501-750
Entries from 501 to 1,000 list individual
Wealth of top 10 £12,838m 11 NORTHEAST £2,874m or family wealth, detailing where and 517= £129m
how it was made, and give last year's Richard Koch Internet gambling. Koch,
(15) £6,750m 1 (1) Mike Ashley (24) £890m valuation and ranking in brackets. 59, struck gold with Betfair, the online
2 (2) Mark Fenwick (34) £420m *denotes family wealth betting exchange valued at £1.5 billion,
by region
(20) £1,200m 3 (3) Duncan Bannatyne (37) £320m following a deal with the Japanese
SoftBank operation. Koch has a stake
(21) £1,020m
(25) £673m
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5
(4)
(5)
TheDukeofNorthumberland
AlastairandMichaelPowell
(39) £300m
(44) £209m
501 £131m worth £95m. He has received £27m cash
(26) £660m 6 (6) Sting (48) £180m Julia Davey Property. Davey, 53, owns and has other assets, including a holding in
(28) £600m 7 (7) Graham Wylie (49) £175m
the Angel Group, a London property private group Zola hotels. (£129m, 422)
operation. The business made a £2.9m
(29) £530m 8 (8) Sir Peter Vardy* (53) £150m profit on £31.5m sales in 2008-09 and is Sir Richard Sutton* Land. Sutton, 72,
(31) £500m 9 (10) Stuart Monk* (59) £118m worth more than £80m. We add £50m for and his family have valuable acreage in
(32) £495m 10 (-) Steve Gibson (60) £112m personal assets. (£131m, 405) Lincolnshire, London, the West Country
(34) £410m WHERE THE 1,000 WERE BORN, LIVE OR WHERE and America. His family firm, Sir Richard
THEIR INTERESTS ARE CENTRED Sutton Settled Estates, showed £124m net
502= £130m assets in 2008-09 (£115m, 474=)
London 377 East Anglia 27 10 YORKSHIRE £6,909m Keith Bradshaw* Care homes and car
£2,284m sales. Car dealer Listers of Coventry is
Southeast
Scotland
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Wales
Northeast
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17 1 (1) Sir Ken Morrison* (19) £1,540m
worth £90m and Bradshaw, 66, owns half. 519= £128m
(31) £500m He made £21m when the Takare nursing Nigel Doughty Finance. Doughty, 52, gave
(36) £350m Northwest 60 Channel Islands and 2 (2) Eddie & Malcolm Healey (20) £1,250m home business he co-founded was sold in the Labour party £1m in 2009 and has
(39) £296m Southwest 49 Isle of Man 23 3 (3) Robert Miller (22) £950m 1997 and he owns property. (£103m, 533=) invested millions in Championship football
(43) £220m East Midlands 42 Ireland includes people now 4 (4) Paul Sykes (26) £650m club Nottingham Forest. He runs Doughty
(49) £166m Yorkshire 42 based in Britain 46 (see pages 85 to 95) 5 (-) Tony Murray* (32) £481m Philip and Patricia Brown Media. Brown, Hanson, the West End private equity
(50) £160m West Midlands 34 Overseas 56 6 (6) Terry Bramall* (33) £450m 73, and his wife, Patricia, 71, sold PJB, business, where his stake is worth at least
(50) £160m 7 (9=) Lord Kirkham (33) £430m their scientific publishing firm in London, £125m. (£119m, 471=)
8=(7) Michael Evans* (34) £400m for £150m in 2003. They have further net
(51) £160m
8=(9=) Lawrence Tomlinson (34) £400m assets in publishing, pharmaceutical and David and Heather Stevens Insurance.
(51) £150m *includes family wealth. property worth £49m. (£130m, 406=) Stevens, 48, and his wife, Heather, 52, are
(58) £122m 10 (5) Hamish Ogston (37) £358m
Up
2009 regional rankings founder managers of the motor insurance
shown in brackets after David Crossland* Travel. Crossland, 63, firm Admiral, with a £120m stake. There
2010 rankings. Page sold Traveljigsaw, an online car hire broker, is other wealth and the couple established
£6,350m
number of entry shown in
brackets before wealth
9 EAST MIDLANDS £4,067m in 2008 following the sale of his Colorado
estate for £11.5m. He launched Airtours,
which became MyTravel. (£130m, 406=)
£42m their Waterloo Foundation with £100m of
Admiral shares. (£102m, 535= )
1 (5) Will Adderley* (26) £670m
(21) £1,060m 2 (2) The Duke of Devonshire (28) £600m Paul Day* Haulage. Day, 51, is managing 521 £127m
3 (1) Michael Cornish* (31) £497m director of Turners (Soham), a Newmarket- Matti and Miriam Kraus Property.
Ad man on the ball
(25) £730m 4 (3) Freddie Linnett and the based haulage and warehousing group Husband and wife Matti, 67, and Miriam
(28) £565m Murphy family (33) £445m worth its £127m net assets figure. There is Kraus, 68, own Pall Mall Investments,
other wealth. (£112m, 490=) worth its net asset figure of £125.6m. We
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(29) £530m 5 (4) Sir David Samworth* (34) £385m
(34) £400m
(49) £175m
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7
(8)
(7)
David Wilson*
John Bloor
(35)
(36)
£375m
£345m Cyril Dennis* Property. Last year,
523= £125m £42m, 51% s Products, a Kent firm making
add £1.4m for dividends. (£100m, 540=)
Monaco-based Dennis, 65, spent more than supermarket baskets, into an
(54) £140m
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9
(-)
(-)
Tony Langley
Tony Wilkinson*
(39)
(42)
£270m
£250m
£23m on the 403-bedroom Le Méridien Sir Martin Sorrell advertising empire through the 522 £126m
(54) £140m Beach Plaza hotel in Monte Carlo, and in Advertising takeover of J Walter Thompson and John Seddon* Construction and golf
10 10 (9) Sir Paul and Lady Smith (42) £230m nearby Antibes he is converting the former Though more of a cricket fan himself, Ogilvy Group in the late 1980s. Sorrell, clubs. Cheshire-based Seddon Group is
£5,810m
1 Le Provençal hotel into 60 apartments. He
sold a 3.3-acre site on the Isle of Dogs for
MCC member Sorrell will be keeping a
close eye on the football World Cup
a Cambridge economics graduate and
Harvard MBA, brought the business
involved in property development and
running golf clubs. Seddon, 75, represents
8 EAST ANGLIA £6,553m £47m in September 2006. (£130m, 406= ) this summer, hoping it delivers a back from the brink after the 1991-92 the family that owns the business. The
global advertising boost. He described recession and today it claims to be the family also owns Seddon Properties.
(20) £1,400m
9 1 (1) Kirsten Rausing* (17) £3,500m
John Dunsdon* Property. Esher-based 2009 as a “brutal” year for WPP, his world’s largest communications (£85m, 657=)
(22) £950m
4 property company Coldunell has net giant advertising group, with profits services group. In 2003, his 33-year
MARTIN ARGLES/THE GUARDIAN
(31) £500m 2 (2) The Earl of Iveagh and assets of £112.2m. The business is run by sliding by 21.4% to £662.6m and marriage to Lady Sandra Sorrell, now
(31) £500m 8 the Guinness family (23) £820m
3 (3) DavidandRichardThompson(33) £450m
Dunsdon, 57, and owned by his family and
trusts and we value it at £100m, adding
revenues down by 8.1%. WPP shares
did well from mid-2009, however, and
worth £32m, ended in divorce and he
had to sell £12.5m of shares to help
523=
John Apthorp* Frozen food and wine.
£125m
(32) £481m
(33) £430m 4 (5) Mike Lynch (33) £427m £30m for other assets. (£130m,406=) the company is worth £8.1 billion. He fund her settlement. In 2008, he Apthorp, 75 today, built the Watford-based
(34) £425m 5 (7) Douw Steyn* (38) £320m moved its headquarters to Dublin in married the Italian Cristiana Falcone, Majestic Wine Warehouse chain. He set
6 (4) Ardeshir Naghshineh* (38) £301m Sir Jack Hayward Property. Hayward 2008, claiming Ireland’s low rate of a director of the World Economic up Majestic after his family made £70m
(34) £400m
6 7 (6) Edward Atkin* (42) £235m sold his stake in the Grand Bahama Port corporation tax meant that WPP would Forum. Sorrell’s stake in WPP is worth from the sale of the Bejam frozen-food
(35) £374m
5 8 (-) Colin Hill (45) £200m Authority last year. The price was not save up to £80m. The 65-year-old £111m. With other assets and past operation. (£120m, 438=)
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(36) £350m disclosed but Hayward, 86, was offered nearly drowned in a sea of debt after salaries, we value him at £125m.
9 (-) David Allen (50) £160m
£87m. Now living mainly in the Bahamas, transforming Wire and Plastic 2009: £83m, 687 Bill Archer DIY. Archer, 65, founded
10 (8) Gregory Darling* (54) £140m he has homes in London, New York and the Crewe-based Focus DIY chain with Greg
Scottish Highlands. (£120m, 438=) Stanley (qv) before selling it three years
£4,986m ago for £1 to a private equity group that
6 GREATER LONDON £66,017m 7 SOUTHEAST £17,080m John Hindle* Property. Hindle, 75, runs Ian McGlinn Retailing and hotels. McGlinn, Robert Palmer Oil services. Palmer, 42, took over its £174m debt. He had earlier
(22) £920m Sale developer Brookhouse and has a a Scot, saw his £4,000 Body Shop stake owns Bury St Edmunds-based RP Valves, made more than £73m by selling part of
(24) £750m 1 (1) Lakshmi Mittal* (14)£22,450m
£240m portfolio. We include the family's grow to £137m, and bought into the Hotel Europe’s leading supplier and distributor his stake. He also bought and sold the
1 (1) Hans Rausing* (17) £4,000m
stake and property. (£90m, 600=) du Vin chain, sold for £66m. (£130m, 406=) of valves for the oil, gas and petrochemical Wickes operation. (£125m, 426=)
(28) £570m 2 (2) Roman Abramovich (15) £7,400m 2 (-) Jorn Rausing* (17) £3,500m industries. The company is worth £124m
(30) £515m 3 (3) Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli (14) £5,950m 3 (3=) Sir Richard Branson (18) £2,600m Ron Jelley* Construction. Jelson, the Andrew Michael Internet. Michael, 30 and past salaries add £6m. (£75m, 751=) John and William Asprey Jewellery.
(32) £452m 4 (5=) David and Simon Reuben (16) £5,532m 4 (2) Nicky Oppenheimer (19) £1,500m Leicester housebuilder led by Jelley, 83, and living in Cheltenham, dropped out of See panel on page 59
(36) £339m 5 (10=) Alisher Usmanov (14) £4,700m 5 (3=) Nadhmi Auchi (20) £1,200m has net assets of £106.5m. The family has school at 17 to develop internet-hosting Kirit and Meena Pathak Food. Associated
(37) £320m 6 (-) Galen and George Weston* (16) £4,500m 6 (5) Wafic Said (22) £1,000m other property and assets. (£60m, 924=) firm Fasthosts, pocketing £45m when he British Foods, the owner of Wigan-based The Baylis family Property. JT Baylis
(38) £320m 7 (4) Charlene and Michel de Carvalho (16) £4,400m sold it. He has reinvested. (£35m, 1,550=) Patak’s spice brand, has relaunched it with jointly developed the giant mall at Cribbs
7 (9) Mike Ashley (24) £890m
Sir Martin Laing* Property and new recipes and a TV advertising campaign Causeway retail centre, near Bristol. The
(38) £300m 8 (-) Anil Agarwal (16) £4,100m 8 (-) Viscount Cowdray & Pearson family (23) £850m construction. Laing, 68, the last family Terence Mordaunt Docks. City suitors are focusing on the Pathak family heritage. company, founded by the late Jack Baylis,
(41) £250m 9 (-) Joseph Lau (17) £3,825m 9 (6) Roger and Peter De Haan (24) £800m chairman of the John Laing operation, queuing to buy Bristol’s dock operations, The family sold up in 2007 for £200m. reported £5.3m profit on £10.9m sales in
(41) £250m 10 (-) Vladimir Kim (17) £3,160m 10 (-) Urs Schwarzenbach (25) £740m stepped down in 2002. Family trusts also owned by Mordaunt, 62, and David Ord Under Kirit, 57, and his wife Meena, 53, the 2007-08, with net assets of £159m. Baylis
own Eskmuir Properties. These interests (qv). Mordaunt has equity of 60%, worth company forged ahead. Kirit is chairman of left £96m in his will in 2006. After tax, the
take the Laings to £130m. (£115m, 474=) £120m, and other assets. (£130m, 406=) ABF’s world food division. (£130m, 406=) family is worth £125m. (£125m, 426=)
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