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Julie Heselden £180m
2016
Position: 36= £150m
LEGACY: Julie Heselden, widow of Jimi who founded Leeds-based Hesco Bastion.
Jimi Heselden, husband of Julie Heselden, bought the struggling US Segway company in 2009 to develop its self-balancing, two-wheeled transport system. Sales had been flagging since President George W Bush was filmed falling off one.
He successfully relaunched the Segway and boosted sales across Europe and the US.
Sadly he died, aged 62, while testing a new rugged prototype on his Thorp Arch estate, near Boston Spa. The vehicle fell off a cliff and into the River Wharfe. He le nearly £300m to Julie, 59, and other members of his family.
Before his involvement with Segway, Mr Heselden had founded Leeds-based barrier and defence equipment company Hesco Bastion in 1991. The business specialises in military and
flood fortifications. The main product is the Concertainer – an innovative barrier consisting of
a collapsible wire mesh container lined with heavy canvas. Its uses have been many and varied, ranging from defending US and Nato bases in Iraq and Afghanistan to strengthening New Orleans’ levees.
The company – which gave its name to Camp
Bastion in Afghanistan – was sold to Belgian security specialist Betafence in 2016 for an undisclosed sum. It had remained in the Heselden family’s ownership up until then, and Mrs Heselden had remained a director.
Mr Heselden, a former coal miner, gave more than £23m back to both the community and military charities. In 2008 he donated £1.5m to Help the Heroes through a charity auction. The same year he set up the Hesco Bastion Fund
in Leeds with a £10m donation to the Leeds Community Foundation. The fund was topped up with a similar amount each year.
He received an OBE in 2006 for his services to the defence industry and his charity work. Mrs Heselden continues to support the causes that were close to his heart.
Jimi Heselden was born in Halton Moor in Leeds. He lost his job as a miner following the redundancies that followed the 1984-85 strike. He spent his redundancy money renting a workshop to set up a sand-blasting business before he developed and patented the Hesco barrier.
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Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland and family £175m
2016
Position: 30= £175m
Baronet, landowner, art collector and hotelier Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland owns land all over England and Wales including in South and North Yorkshire.
One of the most valuable properties in his portfolio is the Fitzwilliam Malton Estate in North Yorkshire, which has been in the hands of the same family for more than 300 years.
The estate includes offices, shops, pubs, hotels, farms and residential properties in and around Malton, including the luxurious Talbot Hotel.
He also oversees 15,000 acres of land around the village of Wentworth, near Rotherham, famed for the Wentworth Woodhouse mansion.
Sir Philip, 64, is the 4th Baronet Naylor- Leyland of Hyde Park House, Albert Gate, London, inheriting the title in 1987.
As well as the Yorkshire estates he inherited
the paternal family residence of Nantclwyd Hall,
in Denbighshire, Wales, and the maternal family residence of Milton Hall, near Peterborough. He manages his estates along with his son and heir Tom Naylor-Leyland, who, with his wife Alice, has a home in the centre of Malton.
Tom Naylor-Leyland, a self-confessed foodie who trained at Dukes Hotel and worked for influential chef Sally Clarke, is a director of the Talbot Hotel and an active promoter of Malton as Yorkshire’s food capital.
The 26-room Talbot Hotel, in Yorkersgate, includes a cookery school. It won the Small Hotel of the Year award at the White Rose Awards in 2014.
Sir Philip went to Eton, followed by the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the Royal Agricultural University. He served as an officer in the Life Guards
He has been Master of the Fitzwilliam Hunt since 1987 and is and is a former chairman of the Peterborough Royal Foxhound Show Society.
In 1980 he married Lady Isabella Lambton and they have six children. She is daughter of the late Antony Lambton who was 6th Earl of Durham until he disclaimed the title to become an MP.
He resigned from parliament in 1973 following a scandal involving prostitutes. Lady Lambton is also the sister of historian, writer and broadcaster Lady Lucinda Lambton.
RIDING HIGH: Landowner Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland has been Master of the Fitzwilliam Hunt since 1987.
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