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Charles Cayzer (businessman, Born 1957)
Charles William Cayzer (born 26 April 1957), is a British businessman. Early life He was born 26 April 1957, the son of Herbert Robin Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick, and his wife Sarah Jane Slade, the daughter of Sir Michael Nial Slade, 6th Baronet. He is the younger brother of Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick. Career Cayzer worked in merchant banking, commercial banking and corporate and project finance at Baring Brothers, Cayzer Irvine & Co and Cayzer Limited. He was an executive director of Caledonia Investments from 1985, and a non-executive director since 2012. Cayzer is chairman of the Sloane Club, Easybox and Edinmore. According to the ''Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2021, Cayzer's net worth was estimated at £959 million, a decrease of £140 million from the previous year. Personal life In 1985, he married Amanda C. S. Squire, the second daughter of John Squire, of Marbella, Spain, and they have children. In 2008, his ex-wife married Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick
Herbert Robin Cayzer, 3rd Baron Rotherwick (born 12 March 1954) is a British landowner and estate manager. He sat as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords for the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, from 1996 until his retirement in 2022. Early life Robin Cayzer was born on 12 March 1954. He is the son of Herbert Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick and Sarah Jane Slade, of the Slade baronets. He spent his early childhood at Bletchingdon Park, a Palladian architecture, Palladian English country house, country house in Oxfordshire. When he was 13, the family moved to Cornbury Park, in the same county, where he still lives. He attended Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was further educated at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, where he graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture (GDA) in 1982. Career Between 1973 and 1976, Cayzer was Acting Captain of Life Guards (British Army), The Life Guards and between 1977 and 1983, of the Household Cavalry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baring Brothers
Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London, and one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member of the German-British Baring family of merchants and bankers. The bank collapsed in 1995 after suffering losses of £827 million (£ billion in ) resulting from fraudulent investments, primarily in futures contracts, conducted by its employee Nick Leeson, working at its office in Singapore. History 1762–1889 Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, with his older brother John Baring as a mostly silent partner. They were sons of John (né Johann) Baring, wool trader of Exeter, born in Bremen, Germany. The company started business in offices off Cheapside in London, and within a few years moved to larger quarters in Mincing Lane.D. Kinaston. The City of London, Volum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caledonia Investments
Caledonia Investments plc is an investment trust company based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Operations Caledonia is a self-managed investment trust. It takes significant holdings in listed equities, private companies and funds. Taking a long term investment approach, Caledonia Investments is a value investor with a global outlook. David Stewart is the chairman and Will Wyatt the chief executive. History The company which became Caledonia Investments was incorporated in 1928 as the ''Foreign Railways Investment Trust Ltd''. It was acquired by the Cayzer family in 1951 to hold their diverse interests and was renamed ''Caledonia Investments Ltd''. In 1955 Caledonia acquired the Cayzer family's interest in the '' British & Commonwealth Shipping Co. Ltd'', formed out of the merger of ''Clan Line'' (started by the Cayzer family in 1881) and ''Union-Castle Line The Union-Castle Line was a British shippin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Times Rich List
The ''Sunday Times Rich List'' is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by net wealth. The list is updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper ''The Sunday Times'' since 1989. The editorial decisions governing the compilation of the ''Rich List'' are published in the newspaper and online as its "Rules of engagement". The ''Rich List'' is not limited to British citizens and it includes individuals and families born overseas but who predominantly work and/or live in Britain. This excludes some individuals with prominent financial assets in Britain. The editors estimate subjects' wealth from a range of public information, based on values in January each year. They typically explain their actions by stating: "We measure identifiable wealth, whether land, property, racehorses, art or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. We exclude bank accounts—to which we have no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl Of Caledon
Nicholas James Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, (born 6 May 1955), is the Lord Lieutenant of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. Life Alexander is the son of Denis Alexander the 6th Earl of Caledon (1920-1980) and Anne Louise, ''Freiin'' de Graevenitz (1927-1963). He was educated at Gordonstoun in Elgin, Scotland. He has been Lord Lieutenant of County Armagh since 1989 and is a Justice of the Peace. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2015 New Year Honours. He lives at Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Family Caledon has two sisters: Lady Tana Focke (born 1945) and Lady Elizabeth Jane Alexander (born 1962). He was married to Wendy Catherine Coumantaros from 1979 until 1985. He married Henrietta Mary Alison Newman on 19 December 1989 and they had two children: Frederick James Alexander, Viscount Alexander (born 15 October 1990) and Lady Leonora Jane Alexander (born 26 May 1993).. He married Amanda Cayzer in 2008.https://www.u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea Register Office
Kensington and Chelsea Register Office is an office for the registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships located in Chelsea Old Town Hall in Chelsea, London. It has hosted the weddings of many notable people. According to ''The Independent'', it is "still one of the hippest places to get married". Notable people married there *Neil Aspinall, music industry executive and Suzy Ornstein (1968) *Lionel Blair, dancer and Susan Davis (1967) *Marc Bolan, singer and June Child (1970) *Pierce Brosnan, actor and Cassandra Harris, actress (1980) *Nigel Dempster, journalist, and Lady Camilla Osborne (1977) *Judy Garland, actress and Mickey Deans (1969) *Hugh Grant, actor and Anna Eberstein (2018) *James Joyce, author and Nora Barnacle (1933) *Patsy Kensit, actress and Jim Kerr, musician, (1992) * Bobby Moore, footballer and Stephanie Parlane (1991) * Prince Pavlos of Greece and Marie-Chantal Miller (1995) *Irving Penn, American photographer, and Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Births
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Billionaires
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayzer Family
There have been three baronetcies created for people with the surname Cayzer, each in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom and each for members of the same family . The Cayzer Baronetcy, of Gartmore in the County of Perth, was created on 12 December 1904 for the businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament Charles William Cayzer, who had made his fortune in the shipping business. The Cayzer dynasty's shipping interests by the 1950s comprised the Clan Line Steamers (cargo) and Union Castle Steamship Co. (passengers). Sir Charles Cayzer represented Barrow-in-Furness in the House of Commons. The third Baronet sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Chester. The First World War admirals Sir Charles Madden and Lord Jellicoe were the first baronet's sons-in-law. The late 2nd Earl Jellicoe was a grandson. The Cayzer Baronetcy, of Roffey Park in the County of Sussex, was created on 17 January 1921 for August Bernard Tellefsen Cayzer, the third son of Sir Charles Cayzer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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