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...He attended Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where his history tutor was Hugh Trevor-Roper, and gained a first....
...With banker David Roper, he created Wassall, an acquisition vehicle-cum conglomerate that Peckham joined and was sold to KKR in 2000....
...Vogue’s Hamish Bowles was thrilled to wear a pair of supple leather lilac ropers, which he had had made in Texas years before....
...Tait and fellow guitarist Cathal Roper wheeled and swooped. But this is the rare band where the bass player — Gabriel Paschal Blake — is as important to the presentation as the frontman....
...I also love the Roper House – you can visit by appointment – lovingly restored by Dick Jenrette. And I could buy prints and frame them at the Audubon Gallery....
.../ From James Marshall, Bangkok, Thailand (ex-Edinburgh)...
...David Roper, one of the founders of the UK’s Melrose Industries, announced on Thursday that he would retire at the end of May next year. His nickname is The Grinder. More here....
...The card on the next-door guest room says “Joanna Roper”. Who is she, I ask? Roper is the Foreign Office’s special envoy for gender equality. She is here to meet her Trump counterparts....
...For the past three decades, Christopher Miller has been honing the takeover tactics he learnt at the feet of the UK’s most famous corporate raider, the late James Hanson....
...Jenrette died at Roper House, the 19th-century Greek Revival Charleston mansion he bought in the 1960s, after battling lymphoma for several years....
...Sales refers slyly to the plantings of a modern master, Lanning Roper, as “conspicuous overlay”, but nobody knew better than Roper “what’s nice and nasty”. Should not his “overlay”, too, be preserved?...
...Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America, believes that it is investors who should decide whether their loyalty lies with the broker-dealer company or the adviser...
...Technologies to buy software firm PowerPlan for $1.1bn (Reuters) Follow the FT’s deals team Arash Massoudi in London — @ArashMassoudi Javier Espinoza in London — @JavierespFT James Fontanella-Khan in...
...So claimed financier Sir James Goldsmith in 1989, after a bruising bid for tyremaker Goodyear won him $93m — although not the target company — within a month....
...Melrose, which was founded in 2003 by Mr Miller, Mr Peckham and Mr Roper, has an established record of buying and improving underperforming manufacturing businesses and selling them on....
...The most recent recruit is Booker-prize-winning novelist Marlon James, who is currently penning an epic fantasy trilogy he describes as an “African Game of Thrones”....
...Society James Jones, the former Bishop of Liverpool, becomes a knight commander for his work as chairman of the independent panel that investigated the Hillsborough tragedy and subsequent police cover-up...
...Christopher Miller and David Roper — happily retired until they founded Melrose, the UK-listed industrial group, in 2003 — seem to think so. Melrose’s strategy is to buy and sell companies....
...Bestsellers included Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser (who had earlier worked for the company), The Double Helix by James D Watson and Harold Evans’ Good Times, Bad Times....
...James Whiteside and moony cowgirl Xiomara Reyes)....
...As the author of first-rate biographies of historians AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sisman knows well the mores and machinations of the establishment....
...Local heroes: Yamination, the animation studio that has won many awards, was started five years ago by Drew Roper....
...Not long, predicts Mr Wynne-James....
...The bulk of the payout will be split between four men: Christopher Miller, executive chairman, David Roper, chief executive and Simon Peckham, chief operating officer, will each receive about 7.5m new ordinary...
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