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...look over his shoulder. For the first time, he wasn't a criminal trespassing on the property of absentee landlords. Who owns Scotland? On the whole, not the Scots. Until last June, the 17,800 hectares of Assynt's Drumrunie and Glencanisp estates belonged to members of the Vestey family, one of England's wealthiest, who would venture up from London every August to enjoy a spot of shooting. Of the 97% of Scotland that is rural land, 88% is privately owned, with two-thirds of that in the hands of 1,252 individuals, families and companies. Mohamed al Fayed...
Although described as "nonemployed," Telling is hardly on the dole. His mother is a member of the Vestey family, one of the wealthiest old-money clans in the land. The Vesteys have interests in shipping, insurance, refrigeration and real estate worth an estimated $1.5 billion. Telling's second cousin, Lord Samuel Vestey, 42 (known as "Spam" after the familiar product of a family meat-packing firm), is a polo-playing pal of Prince Charles. Michael has never officially been employed by the Vesteys, but it seems likely that he was well supported by a family trust fund. Following Telling...
Several of these victims have cost their employers small fortunes. The "Vestey interests," a British conglomerate, paid a reported $1,000,000 in December to free the kidnaped head of its Argentine operations. The Argentine manager of Boston's First National Bank was released after the bank paid a $750,000 ransom. Another $1.5 million ransom was reportedly paid for the British president of Argentina's largest cigarette company, who was released last week. His wife, convinced from the start that his company would pay whatever ransom was demanded, went on television to admonish the kidnapers to "give...
Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised ?220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents...
Born in Liverpool, the Vesteys rank with Swift, Armour and Wilson in the world's meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world...