473= £ 243 m £ 27 m ▲
ERIK PENSER
Finance 2016: £216m, 476=475= £ 240 m £ 20 m ▲
BHUPENDRA KANSAGRA AND FAMILY
Industry and aviationLondon-based Kansagra, 61 later this month , sold a £20m stake
in India’s low-cost SpiceJet airline in 2010. The family of the
Kenyan-born Indian entrepreneur has several interests. Its main
UK operation, Wembley’s Solai Holdings, has subsidiaries that
made more than £43m profit in 2015-16. 2016: £220m, 460=475= £ 240 m £ 20 m ▲
ALEX LANGSAM
HotelsLangsam, 78, owns half of Manchester-based Britannia Hotels,
which has 52 venues and is valued at £180m. Other interests
include Britannia Hotels No 2, showing £133.8m net assets in
2015-16, and the Pontins holiday business. 2016: £220m, 460=475= £ 240 m £ 40 m ▲
DOMINIC SILVESTER
Insurance 2016: £200m, 515=475= £ 240 m £ 5 m ▲
SIR STANLEY AND PETER THOMAS
Food, property and transportThomas, 75, was so upset by the depiction of Merthyr Tydfil in the
Channel 4 documentary series Skint that he decided to pour a
fortune into his home town. Thomas and his brother Peter, 74,
grew Caerphilly-based Peter’s Savoury Products group, which
was sold in 1988 for £75m. The family also netted £106m from
the sale of the TBI airport group in 2004. 2016: £235m, 448=475= £ 240 m No change ■
TOTO AND SUSIE WOLFF
Motor sport and motor racingWolff, 45, runs and owns 30% of the £470m F1 team Mercedes-
AMG Petronas, based in Brackley, Northamptonshire. Three-time
world champion Lewis Hamilton (qv) is its leading driver. Vienna-
born Wolff wed former Williams F1 test driver Susie Stoddart, 34,
from Oban, in 2011. They live in Switzerland. 2016: £240m, 437=480 £ 239 m £ 4 m ▲
ERIC WATSON
Investment 2016: £235m, 448=481= £ 238 m £ 2 m▼
VISCOUNT COWDRAY AND THE PEARSON FAMILY
Media and landSet in a 16,500-acre West Sussex estate, Cowdray House has
been transformed from a family home into an upmarket wedding,
conference and film location. Cowdray, 72, the 4th Viscount,
succeeded to the title in 1995. The Pearson family holds a £38m
stake in the eponymous media conglomerate, which used to own
the Financial Times newspaper. Other family assets include a
Scottish estate and Bepton Farms in the South Downs National
Park, which should add another £100m. 2016: £240m, 437=481= £ 238 m No change ■
PAUL NEWEY
FinanceHigh-stakes poker player Newey, 48, is ninth in England’s all-time
money-winners’ list for the game. Last year he won nearly $2m.
Newey started Tamworth-based Ocean Finance, selling it for
£200m, and his other assets include London investor New Wave
Ventures, which he co-founded in 2010. 2016: £238m, 4461 Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli £11.5bn
2 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho £9.3bn
3 Alejandro Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley £3.862bn
4 François-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek £3.437bn
5 Sir Philip and Lady Green £2.787bn
6 Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman £2.629bn
7 Chris and Sarah Dawson £1.9bn
8 Douglas and Dame Mary Perkins £1.6bn
9 Poju and Anita Zabludowicz £1.5bn
10 Georg and Emily von Opel £1.416bn
11 Navin and Varsha Engineer £1.2bn
12 John Shaw and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw £1.15bn
13 Dennis and Mireille Gillings £900m
14 Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell £780m
15 Crispin Odey and Nichola Pease £775m
16 David and Patricia Thompson £730m
17 Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild £675m
18 Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan £544m
19 Sir David and Lady Tang £500m
20 Tim and Kit Kemp £450m
21 Vernon and Shirley Hill £436m
22 Nick Wheeler and Chrissie Rucker £427m
23 Mark Burnett and Roma Downey £390m
24 Michael and Xochi Birch £375m
25 Gert-Rudolf and Corinne Flick £360m
26 Jim and Fitri Hay £305m
27 David and Victoria Beckham £300m
28 Dean and Janet Hoyle £284m
29 Andrew and Christina Brownsword £280m
30 Sir Paul and Lady Smith £272m
31 Guy and Julia Hands £265m
32 Tony and Christina Quinn £255m
33 Toto and Susie Wolff £240m
34 Sir Ronald Cohen and Sharon Harel £220m
35 Mark and Mo Constantine £212m
36 Andrew and Linda Leaver £210m
37 Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas £207m
38 Nick Rodwell and Fanny Vlamynck £202m
39 Matti and Miriam Kraus £201m
40= Gavyn Davies and Baroness Susan Nye £195m
40= Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman £195m
42 David and Heather Stevens £190m
43 George and Daphne Burnett £185m
44 Max and Jane Gottschalk £178m
45 Rod and Sheila Flavell £169m
46 Philip and Donna Berber £166m
47= Tom and Ruth Chapman £160m
47= Tony and Barbara Laithwaite £160m
49= James and Selina Hopkins £155m
49= Julian and Rosie Richer £155m
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