Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd BaronThomson of Fleet (1 September 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the ninth richest person in the world, according to Forbes.com, with assets of approximately US $19.6 billion.
Kenneth Thomson was born on September 1, 1923 in North Bay, Ontario.
According to Forbes Magazine in 2005, the Thomson family is the richest in Canada, and Lord Thomson of Fleet was the fifteenth richest person in the world, with a personal net worth of US $17.9 billion.
The last time I met Kenneth Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, who has died aged 82, was towards the end of the year-long dispute at the Times in 1979.
His father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson of Fleet, had died in 1976, and there are some who say that Kenneth, who revered his father, never fully reconciled himself to life in Britain after the death.
Thomson was born in Toronto - as was his father - the only son of Roy Thomson and his wife, Edna Alice Irvine.
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