The Sunday Times Magazine – 7 May 2017

Rich List 2017 751-1,000

DAVID GILMOUR

Music

The Pink Floyd singer and guitarist’s 30-show Rattle That Lock

tour took gross box-office receipts last year of $31m (£24m).

Gilmour, 71, lives in West Sussex with his wife, the novelist Polly

Samson. One of their sons, Gabriel, had a small part in ITV’s

period drama series Downton Abbey. David Gilmour Music and

David Gilmour Overseas paid the musician £36m from 1988 to

1999 and showed net assets of £8.4m in 2015-16. New entry

DAVID GRAY

Food New entry

MICHELE HARRIMAN-SMITH AND

GEORGE SMITH AND FAMILY

Internet retailing

Childrensalon, a global online retailer for luxury kids’ clothing,

began in 1952 as a high street shop. Chief executive Harriman-

Smith, 64, took over the Tunbridge Wells company from her

mother and set about tugging the business into the internet age.

When her graphic designer husband, George, 69, posed the idea

of an online retail site, her first thought was: “Why would anyone

buy anything on the internet?” Today the firm has 230 staff and

operates websites in seven languages. In 2015 profits rose 77% to

£10.7m on £42.8m turnover and it is worth £107m. New entry

LORD HARRIS AND FAMILY

Home furnishing

Harris, 74, sold the family carpet operation Harris Queensway in

1988, netting £69m, and set up Carpetright. When he stood down

as chairman of the Essex-based business in 2014 it had annual

sales of nearly £500m. His son Martin runs the flooring start-up

Tapi, backed by investors including Lord Kirkham (qv) and Sir

Harry Djanogly (qv). The Tory peer’s charitable work includes the

Harris Federation of 41 academy schools. 2016: £110m, 885=

CHRIS AND NICK HOPKINSON

Internet retailing and kitchens 2016: £111m, 883=

SAM AND DAN HOUSER

Games

It is 20 years since brothers Sam, 44, and Dan, 42, launched

Grand Theft Auto, in which time the video game franchise has

sold more than 250m copies. Their Rockstar Games is also

behind the Wild West hit Red Dead Redemption. The London-

born pair, based in New York, have amassed a £110m fortune but

are embroiled in a lawsuit with a former colleague, who claims to

have been deprived of $150m in royalties. 2016: £105m, 936=

ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC

Football

Malmo-born Ibrahimovic arrived last summer at Manchester

United, one of the few clubs in the Premier League that could

afford his £220,000-a-week contract. His goals helped the side

win the League Cup before a knee injury last month ended his

season prematurely. The former Sweden international, 35, has a

long-term endorsement deal with Nike and has trademarked his

first name with the Swedish p atent and r egistration o ffice. His

homeland’s latest rich list puts his wealth at £110m. New entry

RODERICK JACK

Finance New entry

NIGEL JAGGER AND FAMILY

Computers and logistics

A businessman pledged his £20m wine collection as collateral

for a loan last year in a deal brokered by Jersey resident Jagger,

63. The arrangement stipulated that the bottles had to be stowed
    in the Wiltshire cellars of Octavian Vaults, Jagger’s wine storage
    firm, where he holds £1bn worth of wines. The family’s investment
    in computer leasing netted it £90m in 1987. 2016: £110m, 885=

PAUL LUKIC

Recruitment New entry

JACK MORRIS AND FAMILY

Property 2016: £117m, 859=

PETER MULLEN AND FAMILY

Clothing and footwear

Dubliner Mullen, 62, and brothers James, 57, and John, 65,

founded shirtmaker Thomas Pink in 1984 and sold it to French

company LVMH for £49m. In 2006 Mullen helped rescue the

Hunter wellington boot operation, whose 2011 sale netted him

£20m and he retains a £40m stake. His latest investments

include Idle Man, a London-based menswear retailer, and the

waste-to-energy group Envirofusion. 2016: £110m, 885=

THE MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON

Land 2016: £110m, 885=

JOHN REECE AND FAMILY

Engineering 2016: £115m, 862=

SIR SIMON ROBERTSON

Finance 2016: £110m, 885=

STEPHEN RUMSEY

Finance 2016: £110m, 885=

JAKE SHAFRAN

Business services 2016: £110m, 885=

PETER SHALSON

Packaging and internet 2016: £110m, 885=

CLINTON SMITH AND FAMILY

Windows and tools New entry

ANDREW STALEY

Finance New entry

AMANDA STAVELEY

Finance

Staveley, 44, runs PCP Capital Partners, which advises Middle

Eastern royals and businessmen on acquisitions and wealth

management. She is suing Barclays Bank for more than £700m

over fees she says she should have received for her part in the

2008 deal that saw Abu Dhabi’s ruling family take a £3.5bn stake

in the bank. Her role there and in the takeover of Manchester City

football club reportedly made her £40m. Born near Ripon, she

has a London townhouse and a home in Dubai, and is married to

the Iranian banker Mehrdad Ghodoussi. 2016: £105m, 936=

STEVE TIMONEY

Energy services New entry

SIR RAY TINDLE

Media 2016: £110m, 885=

NEIL TROTTER

Lottery

Having scooped Britain’s fourth biggest lottery jackpot of nearly

£108m in 2014, Trotter, 44, a former Coulsdon car mechanic,

angered neighbours by erecting a 6ft-high fence around his £5m,

400-acre Kent estate, blocking a local path. 2016: £110m, 885=

MICHAEL WALKER AND FAMILY

Flooring

Smokey the Great Dane has pride of place in the logo of flooring

company Karndean. He was the pet who presided over the

founding of the family firm at Walker’s home in Worcestershire in

1973. Profits rose to £9.4m on £62.4m sales in 2015 and with
      assets of £19.2m the operation is worth £95m. Dividends add
      £15m, putting Walker, 73, and his family on £110m. New entry

TIM WATTS AND FAMILY

Recruitment

Watts joined recruitment specialist Pertemps after the firm was

started by his mother near Coventry with £500 in 1961. His main

company, Pertemps Network, made £15.6m profit on £614.5m

sales in 2015, valuing it at £150m. Watts, 67, and his family have a

£60m stake and other assets including vintage cars. New entry

WOON WING YIP AND FAMILY

Cash and carry 2016: £103m, 985=

The richest

in Ireland

1 Hilary, Alannah and

Galen Jr Weston

and family £10.5bn (22)

2 Denis O’Brien

£3.995bn

3 John Dorrance

£2.125bn

4 Patrick and John

Collison £2.04bn

5 Dermot Desmond

£1.642bn

6 Pearse Lyons and

family

£1.636bn

7 Frank Dunne

and Margaret Heff ernan

and the Dunne family

£1.497bn

8 Lady Ballyedmond

and family £1.42bn (4 3)

9 Martin Naughton

£1.19bn (47)

10 Paul Coulson

and family £1.07bn (49)

11 John Magnier

and family £926m

12 JP McManus

and family £917m

13 The Earl of Iveagh

and the Guinness family

£890m (55)

14 Eugene and Gene

Murtagh £873m

15 Michael O’Leary

£850m

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