The Sunday Times Magazine – 7 May 2017

David Ord took over the port in 1991 and spent more than £475m

reviving it. Profits at the pair’s First Corporate Shipping reached

£20.1m and net assets rose to £189.8m. 2016: £162m, 636=

DOUGLAS WOOLF AND FAMILY

Property 2016: £141m, 733

STEPHEN ZINSER

Finance 2016: £172m, 610=

662 £ 171 m ■

NIGEL PIERCEY AND FAMILY

Medical supplies 2016: £176m, 597

663= £ 170 m ■

MICHAEL CANNON

Hospitality and food

Cannon, 78, owns Co Durham’s 17,000-acre Wemmergill estate,

whose grouse shooting has been enjoyed by Prince Charles and

Kaiser Wilhelm II. He bought US hamburger group Fuddruckers in

1998 for £26.4m, selling it in 2010 for £50m, and last year sold the

£1m Simonstone Hall, the North Yorkshire hotel where Jeremy

Clarkson punched a Top Gear producer. 2016: £170m, 612=

PETE CASHMORE

Internet

Cashmore, 31, started the Mashable tech blog in his bedroom in

Banchory, near Aberdeen, at 19. Soon he was bringing in £2,000

a month in advertising and earned the nickname “the Loch Ness

blogger”. Now based in New York, he has moved into video with a

$15m investment from Time Warner. Talk in 2015 that Mashable

would fetch up to $350m has proved wrong. 2016: £170m, 612=

ERIC CLAPTON

Music

Clapton auctioned a painting by Gerhard Richter for $22.1m in

November, the last of a trio of portraits by the German artist that

the 72-year-old guitarist bought for $3.4m in 2001. His profits

from the sale of all three are about $72m (£59m). While health

problems have forced Clapton to curb live performances, he was

joined on stage by Ed Sheeran at a Tokyo concert last year, when

his album I Still Do reached No 6 in the UK and America. The

former art student, who found fame with the Yardbirds and

Cream, has given $236,000 in the past 12 months to the

Crossroads drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre he co-founded

on Antigua. He also owns Cordings, a traditional gentlemen’s

outfitter founded in London in 1839. 2016: £160m, 640=

NICK DHANDSA AND FAMILY

Care homes 2016: £170m, 612=

LORD FOSTER

Architecture

The $5bn Apple Campus 2 building in Cupertino, California, was

commissioned by Steve Jobs just before the Apple boss’s death

and has been designed by Stockport-born Foster, 81, who

specialises in such signature buildings as “the Gherkin” in the City

and the restored Reichstag in Berlin. His Foster & Partners made

nearly £28m profit on £257m sales in 2015-16. He has homes in

London, France, America and Switzerland. 2016: £170m, 612=

MARK NEALE

Clothing

Sales of the ski suit worn by Prince George on the royal family’s

holiday to Courchevel in the French Alps in March 2016 soared by

40% in the week after he was photographed wearing it. This gave

a helpful leg-up to the outdoor fashion retailer Mountain

Warehouse, founded by Oxford-educated physicist Neale in 1997

with a single Swindon shop. Its profits reached £16.2m in 2015-16,

a 36% rise on the previous year, with sales up almost 30% at

£141.4m. In 1994 he started Route 1, a chain of rollerblade shops,

and sold a pair to Sir Mick Jagger (qv). Next came Bright Sparks,

a shop in Tunbridge Wells selling educational toys that he called a

“disaster”. Ebbw Vale-born Neale, 49, then went on to launch a

greetings card business, 365, before starting a Chelsea-based

manicure salon and, finally, Mountain Warehouse. It has shelved

plans for a £200m stock market float. 2016: £170m, 612=

Rich List 2017 501-750

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BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT:

MARK NEALE

Entry 663=, £170m

The hit parade Top 20 musicians in Britain and Ireland

JOE WALKER AND FAMILY

Entry 646=, £175m

6 Ringo Starr £200m (114)

7 Sting £185m (115)

8= Eric Clapton £170m (119)

8= Sir Rod Stewart £170m (120)

10 Roger Waters £165m (120)

11 Sir Tom Jones £160m (121)

12 Robbie Williams £150m (127)

13 Ozzy Osbourne* £140m (128)

Sir Paul McCartney*

£780m

(57)

U2

£548m

(-)

Sir Elton John

£290m

(99)

Sir Mick Jagger

£250m

(106)

Keith Richards

£235m

(106)

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14 Charlie Watts £130m (131)

15= Adele £125m (73)

15= Brian May £125m (134)

17= Calvin Harris £120m (135)

17= Roger Taylor £120m (136)

19= Phil Collins £110m (138)

19= David Gilmour £110m (139)

The full list of music millionaires is at thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist

* Fortunes include family wealth

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Singing for their supper:

Calvin Harris,

Robbie Williams

and Adele

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