382= £ 300 m £ 166 m ▲
TOM BRUCE-JONES AND FAMILY
TimberCaptain Scott’s exploration vessel Discovery was built in 1901
using timber from James Jones & Sons. The business, based in
Stirlingshire, is Scotland’s largest independent sawmill operation.
Bruce-Jones, 75, is chairman of the company, which also has a
foundry and engineering division. The fifth generation of the
founding family runs the £209m firm, valued on the basis of
£28.5m profits on £132.8m sales in 2015 , plus £171.1m net assets.
Dividends and other interests add £10m. 2016: £134m, 763382= £ 300 m £ 140 m ▲
JOHN CHARMAN
InsuranceInsurance entrepreneur Charman, 64, hit the headlines in 2006
over his then-record £48m divorce from his ex-wife, Beverley.
He made £70.6m selling his Lloyd’s agency in 1998 and heads
Bermuda’s Endurance Speciality, taken over last year in a $6.3bn
deal that valued his holding at £250m. 2016: £160m, 640=382= £ 300 m No change ■
BRUCE CRAIG
Pharmaceuticals“I might be losing one or two million for the next five years,” said
Craig in 2010 when he bought Bath rugby club. He was right, but
fortunately this former scrum-half can bear such blows. Craig,
54, made his fortune from the £975m sale of Marken, a
pharmaceutical logistics operation. Brought up in the Somerset
village of Chew Magna, Craig dodged the chance to read law at
Exeter University to choose Loughborough, where the rugby was
better. He bought Bath from the hotel entrepreneur Andrew
Brownsword (qv). The club finished ninth in last year’s
Premiership and made a loss of £1.8m. 2016: £300m, 350=382= £ 300 m No change ■
SIR HARRY DJANOGLY AND FAMILY
TextilesDjanogly, 78, was last year cleared of deliberately driving with a
policeman clinging to his Jaguar after he was stopped in 2014 for
speeding while taking his wife to hospital. The court accepted his
foot had slipped. Djanogly’s family founded the textiles firm
Nottingham Manufacturing, which merged with Coats Viyella in- He owns the world’s largest collection of Lowry paintings.
His foundation gives more than £750,000 a year to the arts,
educational charities and health groups. 2016: £300m, 350=
382= £ 300 m £ 10 m▼
PAUL AND JEREMY EAKIN AND FAMILY
Medical supplies 2016: £310m, 343=382= £ 300 m No change ■
LORD HESELTINE AND FAMILY
MediaHeseltine’s Twickenham-based Haymarket Media Group, which
publishes FourFourTwo, What Car? and other magazines, sold
property, paid debt and restructured in 2015-16, when its new
parent showed profits of £1.2m. We value it at £200m. The assets
of the Conservative peer’s property group have risen to £83m
and a farming operation adds £7.6m. Heseltine, 84, was sacked
as a government adviser in March after a Brexit rebellion. He has
a 1,400-acre estate in Northamptonshire. 2016: £300m, 350=382= £ 300 m New entry ★
EMMA HINDLE AND FAMILY
PropertyOlympic equestrian Hindle, 42 next Friday, picked up the reins of
Brookhouse Group from her late father, John, who represented
Great Britain at two Games in the 1960s, playing hockey. The
operation, which is based in Sale, owns shopping parks withholdings of 1.5m sq ft of retail, residential and commercial
property. Hindle competed in dressage at Athens and Beijing.382= £ 300 m £ 25 m ▲
LAWRENCE JONES AND FAMILY
InternetGrowing up in a council house in the Welsh town of Denbigh,
Jones, 48, recalls the day a shop assistant cut up his mother’s
rejected credit card. He was just six years old. “That’s never
happening to me,” he vowed. He made his fortune with UKFast, a
Manchester-based cloud hosting business he started in 1999. In
2015 profits were more than £11.5m on £34.3m sales. Jones has
converted Castell Cidwm, a hotel in Snowdonia , into a training
centre for his firm. He holds the company record for running up
and down Snowdon: 1 hour 55 minutes. 2016: £275m, 384=382= £ 300 m £ 20 m ▲
BRIAN KINGHAM
Security 2016: £280m, 377=382= £ 300 m £ 70 m▼
ROBERT RAYNE AND FAMILY
PropertyDerwent London owns office blocks and other properties in some
of the capital’s most valuable locations. The group, chaired by
Rayne, 68, has been active in development work along the new
Crossrail line in central London. The Raynes and their trusts haveRich List 2017 251-500
The Boultbee Brooks brothers, Steve, 56,
a mechanical engineer — above, sitting
second from left next to Prince Harry —
and chartered surveyor Clive, 53, made
their fortunes from property in the UK and
the Nordic region, including shopping
centres in Helsinki and Stockholm. The
frozen north is no problem for Steve: he
once braved -40C and Siberian border
guards to become the first person to drive
across the Bering Strait to America.
The Staffordshire-raised siblings sold
their cars for £5,000 to switch to bricksand mortar in 1987. Many of their recent
developments have been in Manchester or
London, including in the capital’s techie
and hipster enclave of Shoreditch.
There are assets of nearly £165m in 10
companies for Clive and at least another
£62m in Steve’s hands. A strong run of
dividends from Boultbee Construction in
Hereford, where Clive is based, takes the
pair to £300m. Steve races historic cars
and owns a flying school at Goodwood,
taking enthusiasts up in Spitfires and
other vintage aircraft. 2016: £265m, 398382= £ 300 m £ 35 m ▲
STEVE AND CLIVE BOULTBEE BROOKS
PropertyEMMA HINDLE AND FAMILY
Entry 382=, £300m98 • thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist