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Charles Bracewell-Smith
Sir Charles Bracewell-Smith, 4th Baronet was born in October 1955 and educated at Harrow School. He is the founder of the Homestead Charitable Trust and author of "The Song of the Saints". He is a grandson of Bracewell Smith and son of George Bracewell Smith. He succeeded to the baronetcy after the death of his brother Guy Bracewell Smith in 1983 at the age of 30. Bracewell-Smith married Carol Hough in 1977; Hough died in July 1994. He subsequently remarried, in 1996, to Nina Kakkar. He has no children. Bracewell-Smith, along with cousins Richard Carr and Clive Carr, inherited major shareholdings in Arsenal Football Club from their grandfather Sir Bracewell Smith; Sir Charles transferred his shares to his wife who is now a non-executive director of the club. Sir Charles and his wife were ranked 834th equal in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 The ''Sunday Times Rich List 2007'' was published on 29 April 2007. The online edition was published on 30 April 2007. Since 1989, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of England , president = , head_label = Head Master , head = Alastair Land , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = Chairman of the Governors , chair = J P Batting , founder = John Lyon of Preston , specialist = , address = 5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill , city = London Borough of Harrow , county = London , country = England , postcode = HA1 3HP , local_authority = , urn = 102245 , ofsted = , staff = ~200 (full-time) , e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bracewell Smith
Sir Bracewell Smith, 1st Baronet, KCVO (29 June 1884 – 12 January 1966) was a British businessman, Conservative Party politician and the 619th Lord Mayor of London. Biography Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he attended Wesley Place Primary School in the town. He started as a pupil teacher and attended Leeds University before entering business. He married Edith Whitaker in 1909 and had two children Eileen (born 1911) and George Bracewell Smith born in 1912. Business Smith made his fortune in property. In particular he was a major hotel investor/owner and who built the Park Lane Hotel in 1920. The Bracewell Smith family also owned the Ritz Hotel which Sir Bracewell Smith's son George (but known as Guy) sold to Trafalgar House for £2.75m in 1976. They at various times had stakes in the Carlton Hotel and Hôtel Ritz Paris. Smith was also chairman of Arsenal Football Club from 1949 until 1962, and his descendants still held a significant shareholding in the club until 2011. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bracewell Smith
Sir George Bracewell Smith, 2nd Baronet MBE, (12 December 1912 – 18 September 1976), was a City of London business man who owned the Ritz Hotel and several others. Background and education The son of Sir Bracewell Smith, 1st Baronet, KCVO (1884–1966), he was educated at Wrekin College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Family Bracewell Smith married Helene Hydock, from Philadelphia, in 1951. They had two sons, Guy Bracewell Smith and Charles Bracewell-Smith. Career Bracewell Smith was a City of London business man. He was Chairman of the Park Lane Hotel The Sheraton Grand London Park Lane is a 5 Star hotel on Piccadilly, London. The hotel opened in 1927 as The Park Lane Hotel to designs by architects Adie, Button and Partners, in a grand Art Deco style, and was constructed by the developer ... and the Ritz Hotel and a director of Arsenal Football Club. He sold the Ritz Hotel to Trafalgar House for £2.75m in 1976. He was a director of Arsenal Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Bracewell-Smith
Nina, Lady Bracewell-Smith (née Kakkar; born 14 November 1955) is an Indian-born businesswoman who has since March 2013 been based in Monaco. She was a major shareholder and former non-executive director of the Premier League football club Arsenal. Background Born in Bonn, she is the daughter of an Indian diplomat. In 1996 she married Sir Charles Bracewell-Smith, 4th Baronet (of Keighley in the County of Yorkshire) at Westminster Register Office. Her husband is the younger son of the former Arsenal director Sir George Bracewell-Smith, 2nd Baronet , who was on the Arsenal board of directors from May 1953 to September 1976. Sir George was in turn the son of the former Arsenal director Sir Bracewell Smith, 1st Baronet, who was chairman from 1948 to 1962. Arsenal FC Lady Bracewell-Smith's share in Arsenal comes from the estate of Sir Bracewell Smith, which was split among his grandchildren, Sir Charles Bracewell-Smith, Clive Carr, Richard Carr and Sarah Carr, now Lady Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Carr (businessman)
Richard Charles Lascelles Carr (born 22 July 1938) is a former director of Arsenal Holdings PLC ("Arsenal") and a former director and board member of Arsenal Football Club, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arsenal Holdings PLC. He held 2,722 shares (4.6%) in Arsenal till May 2008, when he sold them to Stan Kroenke. He is the grandson of former Arsenal Chairman Sir Bracewell Smith through his mother Eileen Smith. His father Henry Lascelles Carr played cricket for Glamorgan, served in the RAF in the Second World War and died in 1943. He has a wife, Edda, whom he married in 1960; their daughter, Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill is Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. His half-sister, Lady Sarah Phipps-Bagge, held 2% of the shares in the club. His brother Clive Carr is the football club's former Life Vice-President. Richard Carr has formerly held directorships of Lee Yang Enterprise Limited, the Park Lane Hotel Ltd and Tymals Investments Ltd. Tymals Investments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Carr
Clive Carr is a former vice-president of Arsenal Football Club and a former hotelier. He is the grandson of former Arsenal Chairman Sir Bracewell Smith, alongside his brother Richard, through their late mother Eileen. His father Harry Lascelles Carr played cricket for Glamorgan, served in the RAF in the Second World War and died in 1943. Clive Carr married Isabel, daughter of Vicomte Devezeaux de Rancougne, in 1963. They have two children. They divorced in 1970. In 1970, he married Isabel, daughter of Thirlby and Ida Pearce. They have two children. He became chairman and chief executive of the Park Lane Hotel in 1976 and remained so for twenty years until the hotel was sold in 1996 to Sheraton Hotels and Resorts Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is an international semi-luxury hotel chain owned by Marriott International. As of June 30, 2020, Sheraton operates 446 hotels with 155,617 rooms globally, including locations in North America, Africa, Asia Pacific, Cen .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsenal Football Club
Arsenal Football Club, commonly referred to as Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England. Arsenal plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 16 FA Community Shields, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football. Arsenal was the first club from the South of England to join the Football League in 1893, and they reached the First Division in 1904. Relegated only once, in 1913, they continue the longest streak in the top division, and have won the second-most top-flight matches in English football history. In the 1930s, Arsenal won five League Championships and two FA Cups, and another FA Cup and two Championships after the war. In 1970–71, they won their first League and FA Cup Double. Between 1989 and 2005, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Times Rich List 2007
The ''Sunday Times Rich List 2007'' was published on 29 April 2007. The online edition was published on 30 April 2007. Since 1989, the UK national Sunday newspaper ''The Sunday Times'' (sister paper to ''The Times'') has published an annual magazine supplement to the newspaper called the '' Sunday Times Rich List''. The list is based on an estimate of the minimum wealth of the richest 1,000 people or families in the United Kingdom as of January of that year. A separate section lists the 250 richest Irish, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The top three places in the list were unchanged from the previous year. One of the most notable changes was the newspaper's revaluation of property developer Nasser David Khalili, placed 5th, with an estimated fortune of 5.8 billion Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: *1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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