567= £ 200 m ■
RINGO STARR
MusicThe former Beatles drummer, 76, who was born Richard Starkey
in Liverpool, is still touring. The main Beatles company, Apple
Corps, paid £75m in dividends from 2008 to 2016 to former band
members and their families. Starr’s Startling Music showed net
assets of £15.7m at the end of 2015-16. A deal to sell the Fab Four’s
music on Spotify and other streaming sites will keep the royalties
flowing to him and Sir Paul McCartney (qv). 2016: £200m, 515=SUSAN TOBBELL
Fuel distributionTobbell, 65, and business partner Graham Peacock (qv) built up
Epping-based petrol retailer MRH (GB) with £2bn annual sales.
Last year an American private equity firm bought the operation
for £1bn and Tobbell had a 22% stake. 2016: £200m, 515=ALAN WELLS AND FAMILY
OpticiansSauflon Pharmaceuticals sold aftercare solution for contact
lenses before it started making disposable lenses. Wells, 78, sold
the Twickenham operation in 2014 to the US Cooper Companies
in a £700m deal that included debt, though the family picked up
£200m. His sons, Gary, Bradley and David, launched Optipak,
which makes novelty contact lens cases. 2016: £200m, 515=584 £ 198 m ■
IQBAL AHMED AND FAMILY
FoodAhmed, 60, made his fortune from shrimp but his Manchester
food empire Seamark also imports other seafood, poultry and
vegetables. He came to the UK from Bangladesh in 1971. He and
his brothers first set up a storage centre and in 1991 founded
Seamark, where sales fell to £46.1m in 2015. 2016: £205m, 505=585 £ 197 m ■
ANTHONY TODD
Hedge fund 2016: £215m, 478=586= £ 195 m ■
MASAO ASAI
Hedge fund 2016: £185m, 564=NIGEL BLACKWELL AND FAMILY
Books 2016: £195m, 548=GAVYN DAVIES AND BARONESS SUSAN NYE
FinanceDavies, 66, had an £87.5m Goldman Sachs stake when it floated
in 1999. Active, his venture capital firm, has acquired a golf and
hotel complex on the Isle of Arran. Active paid a £24m dividend
in 2015, most of it to Zimbabwe-born Davies, a former BBC
chairman, and his wife, Baroness Nye, 62 today. 2016: £181m, 581STEVE GIBSON
TransportMiddlesbrough football club owner Gibson recently rejected a bid
for the Premier League side he saved from liquidation. Gibson,
59, runs Teesside tank transporter Bulkhaul, whose parent’s
profits hit £23.7m on £195m sales in 2014-15 and had net assets
of £76.5m. His holding is valued at £180m. 2016: £195m, 548=ANDREW GOODSELL
Insurance and travelGoodsell, 58, led two management buyouts of Folkestone-based
Saga, the over-50s insurance-to-travel operation, making a
fortune for owners Sir Roger De Haan and his brother Peter (qv).
The second takeover netted £144m of proceeds for Goodsell,
although he reinvested £36m , and when it floated in 2014 he
picked up a £5m bonus. He made £80m from the float and has a
£10.1m stake in the firm, which he also chairs. 2016: £195m, 548=GEOFFREY KENT
TravelCustomers of the Cheltenham-based travel group Abercrombie
& Kent have included Bill Gates. It is run by Zambia-born Kent, 74.
The British arm saw its sales rise to £51m in 2015 and last year a
Chinese operation took a majority stake. 2016: £195m, 548=TRIFON NATSIS
Hedge fund 2016: £200m, 515=MICHAEL SHERWOOD
FinanceIn 2016 Sherwood, 51, announced that after 31 years he was
leaving Goldman Sachs, where he was London co-chief executive.
He has faced questions over his relationship with Sir Philip Green
(qv) and the bank’s involvement with the BHS sale. When
Goldman floated in 1999 Sherwood had a stake valued at £90m
and retains one worth £60m. He has given away at least £14m
through the Greenhouse Sports charity. 2016: £185m, 564=HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND GEORGINA CHAPMAN
Films and fashionOne of the Weinstein Company’s recent big cinema releases ,
The Founder, was a flop, in contrast to The King’s Speech and
The Artist, which won both best picture Oscars for the production
company that Weinstein, 65, runs with brother Bob. His London-
born actress wife Georgina Chapman, 41, launched Marchesa, an
upmarket New York-based fashion brand. 2016: £200m, 515=595 £ 194 m ■
BILL, TIM AND POLLYANNA GREDLEY AND FAMILY
Property and horseracingGredley, 84, emerged from London’s bomb-ravaged East End to
become a property tycoon. His Newmarket-based Unex
operation is largely owned by his children, international
showjumper Tim, 31, and Pollyanna, 30. In 2015 the company
completed a striking tower block in Stratford, east London. The
business made £24.4m profit in 2015-16 and is worth £180m.
The family has other assets and owns racehorses, with many
bred and kept at its Stetchworth Park Stud. 2016: £194m, 552596 £ 193 m ■
GORDON SANDERS AND FAMILY
Care homes 2016: £185m, 564=597 £ 192 m ■
TONY BRAMALL AND FAMILY
Car salesBramall joined his father’s Sheffield car dealership in 1963 and is
on his third such venture, having made £120m from selling stakes
in the first two. His Lookers dealership holding is worth £76.2m.
Bramall, 81, and his wife run a charitable trust. 2016: £210m, 491=598= £ 190 m ■
DEREK COATES
Vitamins and aviationRaised in the Channel Islands, Coates became a millionaire at 35
when he floated marketing agency Holmes & Marchant. The
Guernsey resident started the mail-order vitamins business
Healthspan in 1996. It showed more than £150m revenue in 2014.
Coates, 68, also owns Blue Islands airline. 2016: £190m, 557=WILLIAM DE WINTON
Hedge fundDe Winton, 48, stepped down from running the ill-fated Global
Financials Fund at Mayfair-based Lansdowne Partners in 2015
but there were strong performances from other funds, with senior
staff sharing £314m in 2015-16. De Winton was a leading donor to
the liquidated Kids Company charity. 2016: £155m, 670=GUILLAUME FONKENELL
Hedge fund 2016: £200m, 515=Rich List 2017 501-750
ANDREW GOODSELL
Entry 586=, £195mPUTTING A GLOSS ON IT:
TONY FERNANDES
Entry 616, £184mTHE DUKE OF
MARLBOROUGH
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