Rich List 2017 501-750
KEITH BRADSHAW AND FAMILY
Car sales and care homesAppointed high sheriff of the West Midlands last year, Aston-born
entrepreneur Bradshaw, 73, is the Queen’s judicial representative.
He co-founded car dealership Listers of Coventry and his family
and Terry Lister (qv) each own half of the £250m operation. He
has also made money from care homes. 2016: £190m, 557=DAVID BROWNLOW
Business servicesBrownlow, 53, a former policeman, co-founded Huntswood in
1996 to provide regulatory and compliance advice to the financial
services industry and other sectors. He owns more than half of
the £400m Reading-based operation and is chairman of the
Prince’s Foundation for Building Community. 2016: £215m, 478=ANDY HALL
Hedge fund 2016: £200m, 515=SEBASTIAN KNUTSSON
Games 2016: £215m, 478=MONI VARMA
FoodVarma, 68, founded Kent-based Veetee Rice in 1987, shortly after
arriving in Britain from Malawi. It is the largest supplier of rice to
the UK retail market and exports to 30 countries. Sal es fell 10% to
£65m in 2015 but a £200m float has been mooted. Dividends
and other assets take Varma to £215m. 2016: £215m, 478=CHARLES WIGODER
Telecoms and utilities 2016: £128m, 792=533 £ 213 m ■
THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND FAMILY
Land and artHigher maintenance costs, poor weather and a slower year for
the d uke’s forestry arm were blamed for a “challenging year” at
Buccleuch Estates. The 10th Duke, 63, presides over a 225,000-
acre estate , built up over 700 years, and about 880 properties.
His father left £320m in his will along with Drumlanrig Castle in
Dumfries and Galloway. We raise Buccleuch, who is close to
being eclipsed as Scotland’s largest landowner by the Danish
billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen , to £213m. 2016: £207m, 502=534= £ 212 m ■
MARK AND MO CONSTANTINE
CosmeticsLush Cosmetics is moving part of its production to Germany
because Britain voted to leave the EU. Constantine, 64, who
founded the company with his wife, Mo, 63, says about a third of
its 1,400 staff do not have UK citizenship and Brexit signalled that
they were “not welcome”. The operation, based in Poole, is worth
£300m and the family has a £207m stake. 2016: £212m, 486=PETER DEAN AND FAMILY
Eggs 2016: £210m, 491=MICHAEL KENT
Eggs 2016: £210m, 491=537= £ 210 m ■
MARTIN AINSCOUGH AND FAMILY
Construction equipmentBefore his Surf Snowdonia venture Ainscough, 64, had never
stepped on a surfboard. His son Andy is the keen surfer, running
the £12m Conwy Valley development, the world’s first inland
surfing facility. Ainscough and his brothers sold Wigan-based
Ainscough Crane Hire for £255m in 2007 and he is heavily
involved in property. He was awarded a CBE for services to
charity, education and young people last year. 2016: £213m, 485MARTIN ANDERSSON
Finance 2016: £184m, 572=owns the Ffos Las racecourse and a motor sports complex near
Glynneath. His Aberdare-based G Walters Holdings operation,
which was founded in 1982, saw profits rise to £26m on £121m
turnover in 2015-16 and is worth its £168m net assets. His son
Richard, 37, runs the open-cast quarrying business Celtic Energy,
showing £36m assets in the same period. 2016: £207m, 502=523= £ 216 m ■
DAVID MABEY AND FAMILY
Construction 2016: £214m, 484SIR RICHARD SUTTON AND FAMILY
LandSutton, 80, owns a property and farming portfolio that includes
the Sheraton Park Lane and Piccadilly Athenaeum hotels in
London, the 6,500-acre Benham Estate he inherited in West
Berkshire and the Stainton Estate in Lincolnshire, plus holdings in
Mayfair. Profits at Sir Richard Sutton hit £66.6m in 2015-16 and
assets grew to £206.2m. He lives in Dorset. 2016: £164m, 633=525= £ 215 m ■
THE MARQUESS OF BATH
Land and artThe energetic Bath, who celebrated his 85th birthday yesterday,
held talks with Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis about
moving the event to his Longleat estate. The plan was blocked by
the marquess’s heir, Ceawlin, Viscount Weymouth, 42, in the
latest in a series of family rifts involving Bath, his son and the
viscount’s wife, Emma McQuiston, the daughter of a Nigerian
oilman. Longleat Enterprises, encompassing Bath’s Wiltshire
stately home, safari park, Cheddar Gorge caves and two hotels,
saw assets rise to £23m and turnover top £30m for the first time
in 2015. There is an impressive art collection. 2016: £210m, 491=A coder might expect to be more familiar
with software pirates than the real-life
variety, but Williams, who co-founded the
flight search website Skyscanner, once
came face to face with machete-wielding
attackers. During a diving holiday with his
wife in Zanzibar, his fellow tourists were
robbed of passports and wallets but
Williams’s cabin was so messy that his
valuables were untouched. “It was really
frightening ,” he said.
Williams worked in software
development for Cantor Fitzgerald and
Marks & Spencer after taking a computer
science and maths degree at ManchesterUniversity. In 2002 he set up Skyscanner
with university friends Barry Smith and
Bonamy Grimes (qv) after struggling to
find cheap flights on the internet for his
skiing trips. It took 18 months from writing
Edinburgh-based Skyscanner’s first
program before the business made a
sale — and that was for a meagre £46.
Turnover has since grown strongly ,
with a £12.9m profit on £1 20m sales in- Last November the Chinese travel
group Ctrip agreed to buy the company
for £1.4bn. Williams, 48, owned about
15% of the operation , a holding valued at
£210m by the deal.^
525= £ 215 m New entry ★
GARETH WILLIAMS
Internet“We live in
the same
house we
did 30 years
ago, but
we’ve done
it up
a bit”
ALAMY; SPLASH MARK CONSTANTINE
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