American industrialist who bankrolled Right-wing causes but clashed with Trump over free trade
David Koch
Governor of the Cayman Islands who had endured three years as a wartime prisoner of the Japanese
Athelstan Long
C
ARL-GUSTAF
JERNSTRÖM, who
has died aged 74,
was a Finnish
showman who in 1976
founded Sirkus Finlandia,
which became the country’s
leading circus.
Its annual tour, lasting
from April to October, takes
the show to a different town
almost every day,
culminating in a month-
long residency in Helsinki.
Known to all as “Kalle”,
Jernström was a bearded,
bearlike figure, bespectacled
and looking hardly like a
showman. But he was wise
and knowledgeable, admired
by circus directors, artistes
and his public alike.
The circus historian Don
Stacey recalled: “I first met
Kalle at the 1997International Circus Festival
in Warsaw, and I was a
member of the judges’ jury
which awarded a Silver
Clown to his son, Kalle Jnr
[Carl Johan], for his juggling
act. Kalle Snr and I became
friends – and if you were his
friend, it was for life.”He was born on July 31
1944 into a family with no
show business connections.
But his early interest in the
circus led him to the
Swedish Cirkus Scala and
then to the Cirkus Ray
Miller, where he learnt the
rudiments of running ashow; though reserved, he
was an astute businessman.
In 1976 he created Sirkus
Finlandia, initially with just
a few horses, a camel and an
elephant, but year by year
the production grew both in
stature and in quality,
surviving early financialdifficulties. Without
competition in Finland, the
show prospered, and in 1982
he introduced a second unit,
Sirkus Finlandia Jnr,
running the two until the
end of the decade.
While he always tried to
promote Finnish talent,
Jernström also engaged a
number of British acts,
including the daredevil
Garcias family; the bareback
riding team, Gabi and
Beverley Donnert; the
Endresz family, veterans of
the Blackpool Tower Circus;
Ingo Stiebner and his
sea-lions; and Dave Blundell
and his acrobatic cycle act.
There were also hundreds
of acts from around the
globe, including the Richters
troupe from Hungary, fresh
from their appearance in theJames Bond film Octopussy,
alongside artistes from
Europe, Russia, China, South
America and Mongolia. In
1992 Jernström played host
to a company from the
Moscow State Circus.
Kalle Jernström was
greatly assisted by his wife,
Leena (née Jurvakainen),
their three daughters and a
son, all of whom helped to
keep the show on the road.
His son Carl Johan became a
fine juggler and bareback
rider, and, when Kalle had a
heart attack, stepped up to
become circus director.
Carl-Gustaf Jernström’s
wife and children survive
him.Carl-Gustaf Jernström,
born July 31 1944, died
July 14 2019Modest Finnish showman who founded the Sirkus Finlandia, featuring many British artistes
Carl-Gustaf Jernström
The world-class Sirkus Finlandia tours throughout the summerA
THELSTAN LONG,
who has died aged
100, survived
captivity on Japan’s
“Death Railway” in Burma to
be one of the last Britons
recruited to the Indian
Political Service; an engineer
of Britain’s handover of
power in Burma, Nigeria and
Swaziland; and the first
colonial governor of the
Cayman Islands in the
modern era.
Not inclined to take
himself too seriously, Long
never forgot his first visit to
one of the smallest islands,
recently devastated by a
hurricane. As he waded
ashore in full colonial rig
(there was no jetty), the
survivors greeted him with a
chorus of God Save The
Queen. “I was moved almost
to tears,” he recalled. “I also
drew the conclusion that the
less you do, the more respect
you may inspire.”
Athelstan Charles
Ethelwulf Long was born at
Worplesdon, Surrey, on
January 2 1919, the middle
son of Arthur Long, a
businessman, and the former
Gabrielle Campbell (the
historical novelist Marjorie
Bowen). He was educated at
Westminster and Brasenose
College, Oxford.
Graduating in 1940, he
was commissioned into the
Royal Artillery, then
seconded to the 7th (Bengal)
Battery, 22nd Mountain
Regiment of the Indian
Army. Posted to Malaya, his
unit early in 1942 joined theretreat to Singapore. Taken
prisoner when Singapore
fell, he was held first in
Changi camp, then sent to
work on building the
Burma-Siam railway.
He lost so much weight in
those three years that the
woman he married in 1948
still called him “a skeleton”.
Demobilised in the rank of
captain, Long joined the
Indian Political Service in- With partition and
Independence the next year,
he transferred to the Burma
Civil Service for the final
months before that country,
too, became independent in
January 1948.
Moving to the Colonial
Service, Long was posted to
Northern Nigeria as a district
officer, touring remote areas
in an outsized Pontiac.
Promoted to senior district
officer in 1958, he became
next year the British resident
“advising” the emir of Zaria
province, who showed his
appreciation with a copious
supply of eggs.
In the run-up to
Independence in November
1960, he served as
permanent secretary in the
federal Ministry of Animal
Health and Forestry, then
started Nigeria’s new
Ministry of Information inthe same capacity. In 1961
Long moved to Swaziland as
chief government secretary.
Britain was attempting to
turn the protectorate into a
constitutional monarchy
prior to independence, and
he worked hard to keep the
venerable King Sobhuza and
his national council onside.
In 1964 he was promoted to
chief secretary, and leader
for government business in
the Legislative Council.
From its foundation in
1963 to 1968, Long chaired
the governors of Swaziland’s
multiracial Waterford
Kambhlaba United World
College, to which he sentboth his sons. The very
existence of the college was
seen as an affront by
neighbouring South Africa.
Before Swaziland in turn
became independent in
1968, in what he termed “the
last whimper of the British
Empire”, Long moved to the
Caymans as the territory’s
deputy commissioner, then
administrator.
In 1971-72, for the final
months of his posting, he
had the reinstated title of
Governor.
The 102-square mile
British dependency was not
then the sophisticated
offshore tax haven it is today;
there were no tarred roads,
telephones or electricity. But
finance and tourism were
starting to take off, with men
from the islands no longer
having to go away to sea to
earn a living.
One executive action Long
took as Governor explained
why he was seen in London
as a loose cannon. When
political unrest threatened to
boil over, Long – on his own
authority – sent for the
British warship on station in
the Caribbean. Its arrival
calmed the situation.
When his governorship
ended in the spring of 1972,
he became briefly
commissioner of Anguilla.
Although he moved with his
wife to this much smaller
territory, they returned to
settle in retirement at Pedro
in the Caymans.
Long played an active part
in the territory’s public andbusiness life for a further
three decades. In 1977 he
joined the Cayman
government’s Public Service
Commission, chairing it
from 1984 until its
dissolution in 2006.
He oversaw the
“Caymanisation” of all the
islands’ public services, with
locals taking over from
British expats.
He also chaired the
territory’s planning appeals
tribunal, was deputy
chairman of its public
service pensions board, and
served on its coastal works
advisory committee.
Long was managing
director of the Anegada
Corporation in 1973-74,
president of the Caymans’
United Bank International
from 1976 to 1979, and
chairman of Cayman
Airways from 1977 to 1981.
Long was appointed MBE
in 1959, CBE in 1964 and
CMG in 1968. In 2017 – by
which time he was living in a
retirement home – his
medals, including his CMG
and his Burma Star, were
stolen from a concrete-lined
safe in his office in George
Town.
Athelstan Long married
Edit “Zadie” Krantz of
Stockholm in 1948; she died
in 2015, and he is survived by
their two sons. The elder,
Charles, is one of the
Caymans’ best known artists.Athelstan Long, born
February 2 1919, died July
31 2019Long as a colonial officer with his young family and, right, finishing his term on the Cayman islandsD
AVID KOCH, who
has died aged 79,
was an American
industrial billionaire
who deployed his
fortune in support of
a range of Right-wing causes and
political candidates, and once
stood as Libertarian candidate for
vice president.
David and his older brother
Charles Koch were each estimated
recently by Forb es magazine to be
worth $42.5 billion as the principal
shareholders of Koch Industries,
which is the second largest
privately owned business in the US
after the commodity group Cargill.
Founded in 1940 in Wichita,
Kansas, by their hard-driving
father Fred Koch – who had
developed a new technique for
extracting petroleum from crude
oil – the modern-day Koch
company is involved in chemicals,
fertilisers, paper manufacturing
and ranching as well as all aspects
of the oil business, and employs
120,000 people.
David Koch was a social liberal
who supported abortion and gay
marriage, but the beliefs that
mattered most to him were in the
field of economics: small
government, minimal welfare, low
taxes and free trade.
He gave hundreds of millions of
dollars to organisations that
promoted those themes, ranging
from the Citizens for a Sound
Economy lobby group which he
founded in 1984 to influential
Washington think tanks such as
the Cato Institute.
In the 1980 presidential election,
Koch ran for vice president
alongside the Libertarian
presidential candidate Ed Clark, on
a manifesto which promised to
abolish social security, minimum
wages, corporate taxes and
agricultural subsidies as well as the
Federal Reserve and many other
government agencies.
Funded by Koch himself, thepair won one per cent of the
nationwide vote. But thereafter
Koch withdrew from direct
involvement in politics – “a nasty,
corrupting business,” he said at the
time – preferring to back
Republican candidates who
subscribed to his philosophies and
fund campaigns against politicians
who did not: notably, in later years,
Barack Obama, whom he regarded
as a “hardcore socialist”.
Relations with Donald Trump
were less straightforward. During
the 2016 presidential campaign, the
Kochs did not donate to Trump’s
campaign, focusing instead on
favoured Senate and House
candidates. But the powerful
Americans for Prosperity group,
which they founded, spent heavily
to bring out Republican voters in
key states such as Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Last year the brothers – ardent
free-traders – launched a campaign
against Trump’s “America First”
policy of trade tariffs against China,
Mexico and Canada, earning a
riposte from the President that “the
globalist Koch brothers ... have
become a total joke in real
Republican circles”.
Nevertheless some
commentators claim that the
Kochs’ ruthless financial influence
laid the ground for the rise of
Trump in a more general sense and
that their role in coordinating a
wider group of donors with similar
views has become a corrosive force
in American politics.
The rise of the Tea Party wing of
Republicanism was in part
attributed to Koch money, and in
more recent times detractors
blame them for undermining any
serious US political action to
address the issue of climate change.
Koch Industries is itself one of
America’s biggest polluters: one
report in 2011 accused its refineries
and factories of emitting carbon
dioxide equivalent to five million
cars. The Kochs have fundedresearch by climate-change sceptic
scientists and campaigns against
emissions legislation; according to
Rolling Stone magazine, they have
even conducted a “dirty war”
against the large-scale
development of solar power.
One scientist at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology – where
Koch is an alumnus, and has been
publicly esteemed as a major
benefactor – said recently that “few
humans have done so much to
dismantle the public’s trust in
science and to undermine political
action on the climate crisis”.
David Hamilton Koch was born
on May 3 1940 in Wichita, Kansas,
the son of Fred Chase Koch –
whose father was a Dutch
immigrant – and his wife Mary, néeRobinson. David was educated at
Deerfield Academy and MIT, where
he took a master’s degree in
chemical engineering and
(standing 6 ft 5 in tall) captained the
basketball team, personally scoring
a record 41 points in a game against
Middlebury College in 1962.
After a spell in engineering
consultancy he joined Koch
Industries in 1970 to work under
his brother Charles (born 1935),
who had taken over from their
father in 1966. David became
president of the engineering
division and executive vice
president of the group until
failing health forced his retirement
last year.
Their oldest brother Frederick
and David’s twin Bill also inheritedshares in the business, but were
bought out after a bitter legal
battle; David and Charles latterly
owned 42 per cent of the company
each.
Though better known for his
political donations, Koch was also
a philanthropist on a colossal
scale, having been prompted in
that direction by two traumatic
episodes: the experience of
surviving an aircraft collision on
the runway of Los Angeles
International Airport in 1991, and a
diagnosis the next year of prostate
cancer, which he would fight for
the rest of his life. “I felt the good
Lord was sitting on my shoulder,”
he said after crawling from the
plane wreckage, in which 34
people (including all the other
first-class passengers) died.
Much of the $700 million he
subsequently gave to medical
institutions, including MIT and the
Memorial Sloane Kettering and
Presbyterian hospitals in New
York, was for cancer research. In
the arts – in which he inherited an
enthusiasm from his mother – he
gave $65 million to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, $100
million each for the renovation of
the New York State Theater at
Lincoln Center and to the New
York City Opera and Ballet (of
which he reportedly said, “I could
afford it ... And of course, there are
beautiful girls”) and $35 million to
the Smithsonian National Museum
of Natural History.
In his younger days, David Koch
had the reputation of a playboy
socialite, famed for his “penthouse
parties”. He was in his mid-fifties
when he married Julia Flesher,
more than 20 years his junior, in
1996; they kept homes in New
York, Long Island, Aspen and Palm
Beach and a yacht in the
Mediterranean. Julia survives him
with their two sons and a daughter.David Koch, born May 3 1940,
died August 23 2019Koch: he was accused of undermining political action over climate changeJ
ONATHAN GOLDSTEIN,
who has died with his
wife and daughter in an
air crash in the Swiss Alps
aged 50, was a composer of
music for films, theatre and
television; those he worked
with included the directors
Martin Scorsese, Trevor
Nunn and Sir Peter Hall,
while in 2013 his Christmas
hit, Magical Moments, spent
three weeks at No 1 in the
UK classical charts, ahead of
music by J S Bach.
Advertising music was a
significant part of his work,
including writing and
arranging short pieces to
promote brands as diverse
as Volvo, Gillette (for which
he won one of several
awards) and American
Express. One of the hardest
challenges he faced was
creating the music for a
“cartoon” advert for the
NSPCC, which he told the
Little Black Book website
involved “scoring
horrendous acts of violence
being committed against a
cartoon child and making it
as funny as possible”.
Besides his commercial
work, Goldstein also
composed in the classical
sphere, notably with the
Balanescu Quartet for
whom he wrote Cyclorama,
a series of 20 pieces, many
of them minimalist. These
led a Gramophone critic to
write: “All those who value
fine musicianship will find
much pleasurable listening
on this concise and often
haunting album.”
Jonathan Goldstein was
born on September 27 1968,
the son of a West End
conductor who worked on
the original productions of
Evita and Annie, and on
television shows such as The
Two Ronnies. “I wanted to
write the stuff he played,”
explained Goldstein, who
identified his musical
influences as including John
Williams, Bernard
Herrmann and “all these
brilliant Nordic composers
who seem to be emerging in
hordes”.
He started composing at a
young age, writing
incidental melodies for
plays at school and at the
University of Birmingham,
where he read Music. His
professional career began in
the theatre, notably writing
the music for Nunn’s 1989
staging of Othello starring
Ian McKellen with the Royal
Shakespeare Company,
before getting his break in
the lucrative world of
corporate films and
advertising.
His first contract was for
Thomson Holidays, and
soon he was working with
all the leading Londonadvertising agencies. In
2008 he set up the Goldstein
production company, a
roster of composers who
would be assigned briefs as
they came in from the
agencies. “I then work
personally with each of
them, honing ideas and
sending things back and
forth until I am happy to let
it out of the door,” he
explained.
His first work for the big
screen was working with
Christopher Palmer on the
orchestrations for Scorsese’s
film Cape Fear (1991)
followed by rescoring
Herrmann’s music for
Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976),
which was recorded by the
Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra.
In 2007 he was
nominated for a Novello
award for his work on
Primo, the HBO/BBC drama
starring Anthony Sher, and
in January 2016 BBC One
welcomed in the new year
with two winter “idents”
written by his company.
In 2016 he married
Hannah Marcinowicz, a
saxophonist from Watford
who performed with several
of the major London
orchestras and in 2005,
while a student at the Royal
Academy of Music, appeared
at the BBC Proms conducted
by Sir Colin Davis.
The couple recently
collaborated on the London
Golden Sax Project, which
they described as “a unique
rediscovery of London’s song
heritage from the Oliver-
esque street seller’s cry of
Will You Buy? to the timeless
classic of A Nightingale Sang
in Berkeley Square”.
Goldstein, who enjoyed
“chopping vegetables and
getting busy in the kitchen”,
was an enthusiastic pilot and
in 2015 acquired a five-seater
Piper PA-28. The couple,
who lived in London, died
with Saskia, their seven-
month-old daughter, when
their aircraft came down in
the Simplon Pass area on a
flight from Lausanne to Italy.Jonathan Goldstein, born
September 27 1968, died
August 25 2019Jonathan Goldstein
Wrote award-winning music to
advertise brands such as Gillette
Jonathan and Hannah GoldsteinObituaries
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