Latest finance and business obituaries
The lives, careers, foibles and crimes of the good, the bad and the simply famous in the financial and business world from the telegraph Obituaries
latest finance and business obituaries
William Clarke
Financial journalist who explained the 'invisible’ economy and traced the lost fortune of the Russian Tsars
26 May 2011
Ambrose Congreve
Businessman who established a woodland garden of world renown at his family seat in Ireland
25 May 2011
Wallace McCain
Businessman who built a fortune on frozen chips but was ousted from the company that bears his name
18 May 2011
Sir Anthony Hayward
Businessman whose family prospered in the Raj selling gin, brandy, opium and ganja
05 May 2011
Sir Geoffrey Chandler
SOE saboteur and oil executive who became a champion of business ethics
27 Apr 2011
Lord Ampthill
Impresario and businessman who, as 'the Russell baby’, featured in a cause célèbre about his paternity
26 Apr 2011
Pietro Ferrero
Joint head of Ferrero, the family-owned chocolate empire that 'really spoiled us’
19 Apr 2011
Danny Fiszman
Diamond tycoon and director of Arsenal who became a key player in the battle for control of the club
14 Apr 2011
Sir Frank Lampl
Auschwitz survivor and wartime slave labourer who rose to be head of the Bovis building empire
03 Apr 2011
Edward Stobart
Haulage boss behind Britain's most distinctive fleet of lorries who insisted his drivers wore ties
31 Mar 2011
George Walker
Former boxer who built a multi-million-pound business empire that ended in his financial ruin
25 Mar 2011
Howard Phelps
Businessman who battled with strikes at British Airways and handled the launch of Concorde
13 Mar 2011
Sir Brian Shaw
Shipping executive who helped transform the industry in the jet age and was later chairman of the AA
02 Mar 2011
Sir Peter Carey
Civil servant in the middle of the ideological battle over failing British industry during the 1970s
27 Feb 2011
Roger Holdsworth
Psychologist who turned personality testing into a huge global industry
27 Feb 2011
Cyril Stein
Ladbrokes chief who transformed the gentry’s turf accountant into a multibillion-pound concern
23 Feb 2011
Raymond Burton
Philanthropist and scion of the family tailoring empire who was proud to have started Top Shop
20 Feb 2011
William Schreyer
Chairman of Merrill Lynch who told investors he was 'bullish on America'
26 Jan 2011
Ian Macpherson
SOE officer who parachuted into the Balkans and went on to negotiate with Saddam Hussein
12 Jan 2011
Giles Gleadell
City broker who worshipped Elvis and had his first drink at six weeks old
12 Jan 2011
Shanta Pathak
Indian immigrant who arrived in Britain from Kenya with £5 to build one of the nation’s biggest food empires
23 Dec 2010
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