The Sunday Times Magazine – 7 May 2017

Rich List 2017 751-1,000

856= £129m ■

DEMI CHERVAK AND FAMILY

Property 2016: £135m, 754=

ANTHONY, PATRICK, THOMAS AND LIAM SMYTH

Retailing

Brothers Anthony, 60, Patrick, 59, Thomas, 58, and Liam, 54, own

Galway-based Smyths Toys, with 80 stores in the UK and Ireland.

Turnover rose to a record £334m in 2015, with assets up to £15m.

They also have pub and restaurant interests. 2016: £122m, 825=

858= £128m ■

SIR JOHN CAMPBELL AND FAMILY

Eggs

Campbell, 83, owns Scotland’s biggest independent egg

producer, Glenrath Farms, near Peebles, where profits reached

£7.8m on sales of £52.3m in 2014-15 and there was £65.6m in net

assets. He was knighted in January for services to farming and

charity. Agricultural land adds £18m. 2016: £128m, 792=

KILLIAN HURLEY AND FAMILY

Construction New entry

SIR ALAN PARKER

Media See panel, page 135

DENNIS PAULLEY AND FAMILY

Property 2016: £105m, 936=

THE SIMPSON FAMILY

Property 2016: £125m, 799=

MAX SMITH-HILLIARD

Meat

To fund his passion for racing classic Formula One cars, Smith-

Hilliard, 58, brings home the bacon as perhaps the biggest player

in the British pig industry. In 2016 Asda bought his two West

Yorkshire-based meat-processing businesses, the deals valuing

his holding at £116m. Past dividends and a £10m stake in Kober,

also acquired by Asda, take him to £128m. 2016: £120m, 831=

ANDERS STROM

Gambling 2016: £112m, 874=

865= £127m ■

ANTON BILTON FAMILY

Property

Guernsey-based Raven Russia was founded by Bilton, 52, to

invest in warehouses across Russia that are then leased out.

After a number of share sales, he owns a £21.2m holding. He is the

grandson of the late Percy Bilton, the London developer whose

property group was taken over for £270m in 1998 in a deal

valuing the family’s stake at £79m. We add the family wealth to

Bilton’s assets, including Tyringham Hall in Buckinghamshire. He

is married to the American actress Lisa B. 2016: £120m, 831=

STEVE CAUNCE

Internet retailing 2016: £128m, 792=

SIR TOM FARMER

Car parts and property

In 2015 Farmer, 76, received the Edinburgh award in recognition

of his outstanding contribution to Scotland’s capital. He sold his

Kwik Fit tyre and exhaust chain for £1bn in 1999 and owns a

majority stake in Scottish Championship football team Hibernian.

He started Farmer Autocare in 2003. 2016: £130m, 766=

868= £126m ■

SIR DAMON BUFFINI

Finance

Buffini, 54 yesterday, is leading a government panel to investigate

why many British start-ups struggle to grow. Raised on a council

estate in Leicester, the Cambridge-educated financier led the

team that bought out Schroder Ventures’ private equity arm to

create Permira in 2001 and grew its assets to $20bn in 2010.

Buffini, who was knighted last year, is chairman of the National

Theatre and a Wellcome Trust governor. 2016: £125m, 799=

THE MARQUESS OF BUTE

Land and art

As Johnny Dumfries, Bute competed in Formula One and in 1988

won the Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race. He inherited his title

in 1993 from his father, who left £144m in his will. Bute, 59, sold his

secondary residence, Dumfries House, and its contents for £45m

in 2007 and regular art sales have raised further funds to restore

his 27,000-acre estate and Mount Stuart seat. A recent £8m

investment was unveiled by the Mount Stuart Trust, which in 2015

had net assets of £79.3m, and there are another £30.7m of them

in the accounts of a separate Bute firm. 2016: £122m, 825=

CHRIS MARSHALL AND FAMILY

Property 2016: £113m, 872=

SIR GEORGE MEYRICK

Land and property

Racehorse owner Meyrick, 76, is a prominent landowner in the

southwest and Wales whose tenants have included the Duke and

Duchess of Cambridge, who began married life in a property on

his 17,000-acre Anglesey estate. Several separate companies,

including Meyrick Estate Management and Bodorgan Properties,

have £9m net assets between them. Rising farmland prices

slightly increase the family’s wealth by £1m. 2016: £125m, 799=

Hamilton has urged new Formula One

owner Liberty Media to lift the ban on the

use of social media by drivers on race

weekends. A prodigious Instagrammer

with more than 4m Twitter followers, he

complained in February that his sport was

late to the party: “They utilise social media

a lot better in football, in the NBA, in the

NFL... It’s a super-easy free tool for the

sport to use to engage with other people.”

The 32-year-old won his third F1

drivers’ championship in 2015 and needs

another world title to activate all the bonus

clauses in his three-year Mercedes deal,

which could raise his annual earnings from

driving alone to £33m. He has started the

new season well but faces stiff

competition from Germany’s Sebastian

Vettel and the resurgent Ferrari team.

The UK’s richest active sportsman,

Hamilton has sponsorship deals with IWC

watches, L’Oréal and Bombardier, one of

whose jets he uses to zip around the world

with his two bulldogs, fellow social media

stars Roscoe and Coco. Born in Stevenage,

he lives in Monaco and has a home in

Colorado. He pays little tax because of his

overseas residency. 2016: £106m, 931=

837= £131m £25m ▲

LEWIS HAMILTON

Motor racing

Richest

in Sport

1 Lewis Hamilton

Motor racing

£131m (133)

2 Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Football

£110m (139)

3 Wayne Rooney

Football

£93m (-)

4 Jenson Button

Motor racing

£86m (-)

5 Rory McIlroy
Golf
GETTY £82m (72)

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