This Kentuckian buccaneer founded Sea Containers in 1965. He is best known though buying the Hotel Cipriani in Venice for less than £1 million “on a whim” and reviving the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express. A true perfectionist with an attention to detail unlike any other, Sherwood was victorious in 2010 in a battle with the Cipriani family over their using his hotel’s name in London and also founded Harry’s Bar in Mayfair with Mark Birley. He is married to the leading expert on botanical art, Dr Shirley Sherwood OBE, and was once stranded at 16,000 feet in the Andes with Princess Michael of Kent after his helicopter had to make an emergency landing.

The Roll Call - TYCOONS

1

Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)

2

Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)

3

Denise Coates

4

Trevor Hemmings CVO

5

Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)

6

Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)

7

Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)

8

Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA “The Third Brother”)

9

John Pappajohn

10

Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA

11

Rich Ricci

12

Richard Desmond (nicknamed “Mr Badger”)

13

Howard Raymond

14

Richard Caring

15

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

16

Urs Schwarzenbach

17

Wafic Saïd

18

James Sherwood

19

Crispin Odey

20

Vincent Tchenguiz

21

Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)

22

Gina Rinehart

23

Alan Miller

24

Owen Oyston

25

Robert Maxwell (1923 – 1991)

26

Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)

27

Nick & Christian Candy

28

Rupert Murdoch