Michael Pearson
4th Viscount Cowdray Park in West Sussex, landowner, heir to the Pearson publishing family dynasty, great grandson of Weetman Pearson (Lord Cowdray)
John C. Malone
Billionaire landowner, businessman, CEO of Tele-Communications, philanthropist
John Pearson
3rd Viscount Cowdray, Lieutenant Colonel for the British army, military veteran, polo player, businessman, heir to the Pearson publishing family dynasty
1910-1995 (85)
King Rama IX
King of Thailand, the 9th monarch of the Chakri Dynasty, billionaire owning 128 million acres of land
King Salman of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia, House of Saud owns 553 million acres of land, served as deputy governor and then the Governor of Riyadh for 48 years from 1963-2011
Perry Pearson
5th Viscount Cowdray, socialite, heir to the Cowdray Park estate in West Sussex, aristocrat, heir to the Pearson publishing dynasty
Prince Rupert
landowner of Rupert's Land (1670), voyager of "Nonsuch" in 1668, first governor of Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), chemist, inventor of tear-shaped glass globules known as “Rupert’s drops" (a precursor to bulletproof glass), early torpedos and a "diving engine", artist, military veteran soldier who fought in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), British admiral and cavalry commander during the English Civil War from 1642-1651, 1st cousin of King Charles II, House of Stuart
1619-1682 (63)
hbcheritage.ca
R.R. Torrens
1st Register-General of Titles for South Australia, Register-General of Deeds in 1853 known as the Torrens Certificate, proposed land titles reform in 1857 resulting in a Real Property Act of 1858, known today as the Torrens title system (which is also adopted by British Columbia and other parts of Canada) for registration of land titles, son of Colonel Robert Thomas
1812-1884 (72)
Col. William Light
Australian explorer, frontiersman, pioneer, ship captain of the Rapid vessel, founder of Adelaide (SA) aka Colonel Light, 1st Surveyor-General of new British Province of South Australia in 1836
1786-1839 (53)
rgssa.org.au