Word: ellerman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...richest man in England is so invisible that you undoubtedly have never even heard of him. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, who inherited a shipping fortune now worth almost $300 million, is 58 years old, but he has never made a public statement other than "I have no statement to make." Since he is hardly ever photographed, he has no trouble traveling incognito, often signing on one of his ships as a crewman though of course he doesn't work at it. Ellerman's passion is rodents, on which he wrote a three-volume anatomical study, the definitive work...
...doughty little Englishwoman known as Bryher-in 1920 she changed her name from Winifred Ellerman-lives in Switzerland, where she has written a series of brisk, gnomic historical novels (Roman Wall, Ruari). Bryher seems to have had a full life of missed opportunities. She is the daughter and sister of millionaires...
...father, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, rose from stock clerk to owner of a vast shipping fortune. By shrewd investment, her brother John-a skittery recluse whose sole passion is the study of rodent anatomy-has become Britain's richest...
...Sphere (50,000) and the 119-year-old Illustrated London News (79,000)-and the deal was conducted with the usual Thomson aplomb. As he prowled about Britain looking for properties to buy, Thomson crossed the path of the group's proprietor, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 51, a recluse so unsociable that he has been photographed only three times in 30 years. An indefatigable voyager, Sir John usually travels incognito, often signing on as seaman on one of his own merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for money, has swelled to $280 million...
...With the Ellerman magazines added to his roster, tireless Roy Thomson has already begun to beat the bushes for more bargains. A man with the expansion powers of an inhaling toad, he has traversed four continents since October, gathering so many more new properties that he himself has lost track. "Let's see," he asked an aide last week, trying for a head count. "How many magazines did we pick up out in Australia? Ten or twelve? Oh, fine, 13. How many we got in Africa? Thirty in Africa. We got three new TV stations in Kenya, Uganda...