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...Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell is seeking £200mn in damages from the UK’s gambling regulator after it awarded the licence to Czech-owned Allwyn to run the National Lottery....
...Richard Strauss arguably invented an ancestor of reality TV when he put his domestic life on stage with Intermezzo in 1924....
...Contrast all this with the position of San Francisco’s tech barons. Apple is astoundingly worth nearly 10 times as much as it was in 2015....
...Harry Vane, the 12th Baron Barnard, is more reserved but equipped with a deep knowledge of the history of the castle and his ancestry....
...Poultry magnate Ronald Cameron and retail baron Art Pope are helping to fund vice-president Mike Pence....
...For many years, Odey Asset Management’s predominantly male workforce included a disproportionate number of Old Etonians and Old Harrovians, as well as employees with every title imaginable: dukes, barons...
...Their son, Baron Alphonse, with his wife (and cousin) Leonora, continued the collecting tradition....
...Richard Strauss composed an opera....
...With Treasury, which he co-owned with Richard Barrett, Ronan was behind some of Dublin’s showiest buildings, including the Convention Centre designed by award-winning architect Kevin Roche, which stands...
...Schwab’s shares jumped 9.2 per cent on Tuesday after billionaire fund manager Ron Baron “marginally increased” his less than 1 per cent investment in the firm and as US financial stocks surged following...
...It’s an unintentional history of capital, philanthropy and robber barons; it shows you the underworld of America’s elite....
...The hotel I’m staying at, Baron’s Cove, is a seven-minute walk from The Dock House....
...Though Twitter is more of a tech platform than a single editorial product, Musk’s unique position is likely to leave him with some of the influence associated with traditional “press barons — whether that...
...Designed by Richard Norman Shaw, one of the great domestic architects of the era, they represented an attempt to formulate a language for apartment living particular to London....
...“Worcester Sauce” is typical of the creativity of The Liberator, a brand owned by canned wine proselytiser and Master of Wine Richard Kelley....
...For Richard Wentworth, in 2001, the iron railing with a glove impaled on it becomes both display and surrogate hand, a strange and slightly sinister juxtaposition of two shiny black objects....
...Now, this could just be that public producers are simply more disciplined on capital than old-skool oil barons who whisper “drill baby drill” in their sleep....
...This series has been about how big porn barons are reliant on Visa and Mastercard and how Visa and Mastercard are reluctant rulers of the porn barons....
...He was, incidentally, the only British artist ever to have been ennobled, becoming Baron of Stretton. He died the following day, making it the shortest peerage ever....
...“It does feel as though they’re moving towards elevating the product,” says Richard Chamberlain, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets....
...The great French anatomist Baron Georges Cuvier, a contemporary of Mantell’s, was even name-checked by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a Sherlock Holmes story....
...position and influence normally associated with traditional press barons....
...Here is a world of teddy boys and retro swing dresses, with the Marschallin as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike and Baron Ochs a faded, prewar Lothario sporting ginger hair and a garish tartan suit....
...Viscount Rothermere’s daily regularly portrays trade-union leaders such as Lynch as “union barons” intent on paralysing Britain....
...The ownership of the estate can be traced back as far as 1521 when it was entrusted by Henry VIII to the diplomat Sir Richard Weston....
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