When was the English business magnate who founded The Spaceship Company born
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The Spaceship Company The Spaceship Company (TSC) is a British/American spacecraft manufacturing company that was founded by Burt Rutan and Richard Branson in mid-2005 and was jointly owned by Virgin Group (70%) and Scaled Composites (30%) until 2012 when Virgin Galactic became the sole owner. TSC was formed to own the technology created by Scaled for Virgin Galactic's Virgin SpaceShip program. This includes developments on the care-free reentry system and cantilevered-hybrid rocket motor, licensed from Paul Allen and Burt Rutan's Mojave Aerospace. The company is manufacturing Virgin Galactic's spacecraft and will sell spacecraft to other buyers.
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Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies.
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Robert Edmiston Robert Norman Edmiston, Baron Edmiston (born 6 October 1946) is a British billionaire motor trade entrepreneur based in the West Midlands who has established a number of religious and educational charities, including Christian Vision.
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Victor Watson Victor Hugo Watson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (26 September 1928 – 25 February 2015) was a British businessman and philanthropist. He served as the Chairman of Waddingtons 1977 to 1993. Waddingtons employed over 3,000 people, mainly in Leeds, and were involved in printing, packaging, games and playing cards. He was sometimes known as "Mr Monopoly".
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Chris Grigg Christopher Montague Grigg (born 6 July 1959) is a British businessman, chief executive (CEO) of The British Land Company plc, a British property development and investment company.
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Steve Morgan (businessman) Stephen Peter Morgan {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 25 November 1952) is an English businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and non-executive chairman of the construction company Redrow, and the former chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C..
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Alan Sugar Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate. He is also a media personality, politician and political adviser. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Sugar became a billionaire in 2015. In 2016 they estimated his fortune at £1.15bn, and ranked him as the 95th richest person in the UK. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the consumer electronics company Amstrad, his largest business venture.
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Freddie Laker Sir Frederick Alfred Laker (6 August 1922 – 9 February 2006) was an English airline entrepreneur, best known for founding Laker Airways in 1966, which went bankrupt in 1982. Known as "Freddie Laker", he was one of the first airline owners to adopt the "no-frills" airline business model that has since proven to be very successful worldwide with companies such as Southwest Airlines, Norwegian Air, Ryanair, easyJet, AirAsia and WestJet.
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Tony Marchington Dr Anthony Frank (Tony) Marchington (2 December 1955 – 16 October 2011) was an English biotechnology entrepreneur and businessman, famous as the co-founder of Oxford Molecular, and the former owner of the famous Class A3 4472 "Flying Scotsman" locomotive.
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Robert Burton-Chadwick Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick, 1st Baronet (20 June 1869 – 21 May 1951) was a shipping magnate and an English Conservative Party politician.
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Fred Newman (businessman) Frederick Edward Fry Newman CBE, MC (1916–2012) was a shipbroking and aviation entrepreneur who founded and was a major shareholder and chairman of former leading UK independent airline Dan-Air for 37 years, from 1953–1990.
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Jeremy Hall (businessman) Jeremy Simon Hall (born 27 January 1965) is a British businessman and chairman of Who's Who Publications Plc.
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Virgin Group Virgin Group Ltd. is a British multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate founded by entrepreneurs Sir Richard Branson and Nik Powell.
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Toby Clarke Sir Charles Mansfield Tobias Clarke, 6th Baronet (born 8 September 1939 in Santa Barbara, U.S.), known as Sir Toby Clarke since 1973, is a British businessman.
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Kevin McCabe (businessman) Kevin Charles McCabe (born 1948) is an English property business man. He currently oversees his international business interests from Brussels.
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Jeremy Hardie Charles Jeremy Mawdesley Hardie (known as Jeremy Hardie) (born 9 June 1938), CBE is a British economist and businessman.
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Lionel Martin Lionel Walker Birch Martin (15 March 1878 – 21 October 1945) was an English businessman, who founded the company, with Robert Bamford (1883–1942), that became Aston Martin.
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Robin Southwell Robin Southwell, OBE, is a British businessman. He is the UK head of the aerospace company EADS (now Airbus). He was born on 10 April 1960, the son of Peter and Susan Southwell, and lives in Cobham, Surrey. He was educated at Finchley Manor Hill Comprehensive school in Barnet and studied economics and history at the University of Hull.
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Mojave Aerospace Ventures Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) is a company founded by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan to handle the commercial spinoffs from the Tier One project. It owns the intellectual property arising from Tier One, and it is in turn owned by Paul Allen (the majority shareholder) and Burt Rutan. In 2004, it signed a deal with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin SpaceShip, a suborbital spacecraft, for space tourism. Virgin Group and Scaled have subsequently formed a joint venture, The Spaceship Company, to manufacture the spacecraft.
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Matt Ridley Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 7 February 1958), commonly known as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist and businessman. Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books including "" (1994), "Genome" (1999), "" (2010) and "The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge" (2015). He publishes a blog, and is a regular contributor to "The Times" newspaper.
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Planet Online Planet Online was a UK business-to-business Internet Service Provider. Based in Leeds, it was started by local businessman and multi-millionaire Peter Wilkinson and Paul Sykes in July 1995.
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Wensley Haydon-Baillie Wensley Haydon-Baillie, born ca. 1953, the son of a surgeon from Worksop, Nottinghamshire, was once one of the 50 richest men in the UK after working his way up in the pharmaceutical industry. A company he invested in, Porton International, sold at high prices when it seemed it had a cure for herpes. It collapsed when it turned out it did not and the company wound up selling at a discounted price to Ipsen Pharmaceutical. He owned a collection of Rolls-Royces and an aviation museum housing and restoring many Spitfires. He also owned Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire – one of the largest private homes in Europe with an assumed 365 rooms. In the 1980s, he invested millions in a firm that claimed to have a cure for herpes but it never materialised and in 1998 he admitted to debts of £13m. In 1994, Wensley Haydon-Baillie married Samantha Acland, a secretary. Prince Michael of Kent was best man. He was once the owner of the two largest passenger hovercraft in the world, the SRN4s, and also one of the fastest boats in the world, the "GTY Brave Challenger".