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Friday, January 23, 2015

The Midlands Rich List


1 Lord Bamford £3.3bn    Manufacturing
2 Lord Paul of Marylebone £2bn    Manufacturing
3 Jacques Murray £1.0bn    Manufacturing
4 Randy Lerner £950m   Banking/Football
5 Ranjit and Baljinder Boparan Singh £800m   Food
6 John Bloor £750m   Manufacturing/Construction
7 Steve Morgan £650m   Construction/Football
8 Sir Peter Rigby £550m   IT/Aerospace
9= Kevin Cash £500m   Property
9= Roy Richardson £500m   Construction
11 Tony Gallagher £475m   Construction
12= Caspar MacDonald-Hall £450m   Property
12= Lord Edmiston £450m   Property/Automotive
12= The Mackie Family £450m   Electricals
15 Kevin Threlfall £320m   Retail
16 Sir Paul Ruddock £300m   Hedge Funds
17 Paul Newey £230m   Finance
18 Richard Harpin £200m   Insurance
19 James Holder £175m   Fashion
20 Keith Bradshaw £172m   Care Homes/Automotive


Lord Bamford – formerly Sir Anthony Bamford – has the formal title of Baron Bamford of Daylesford in the County of Gloucestershire and Wootton in the County of Staffordshire. 

As well as their huge 4,000 acre Wootton estate in Staffordshire, Lord Bamford, 68, and his wife Lady Carole Bamford have homes in Chelsea, Barbados and France and the 2,000- acre Daylesford estate near Stow-on-the Wold. Lady Bamford also runs Daylesford Organics. She founded the company 12 years ago and it is now one of the country’s largest working organic farms, with a long list of celebrity customers. It is one of the most sustainable farms in the UK. The company, which has a vineyard in Provence, also has a store, bakery and café in Tokyo. She also has shops in Pimlico, Notting Hill, Selfridges and Gloucestershire, an organic farm school, a cookery school and a fashion business – Bamford & Sons. 

Lord Bamford moves in exalted circles and has the ear of the Prime Minister, having donated almost £5 million to the Conservative Party since 2002, and is a member of David Cameron’s elite leaders’ group.

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