Kenneth Thomson

Born:	September 1, 1923 North Bay, Ontario
Died:	June 12, 2006 Toronto, Ontario
Occupation:	Chairman, Woodbridge Co. Ltd[1]
Net worth:	$19.6 billion USD (Mar. 2006)[2]
Website:	thomson.com

Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson 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. Image File history File links Ken mishima, of Ehergeiz glory File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... North Bay (, time zone EST) is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada (2001 population 52,771). ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... A chairperson is the political correct term for the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Early life and career

Kenneth Thomson was born on September 1, 1923 in North Bay, Ontario. He was the son of the late Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet. The family moved from the United Kingdom to Canada when Roy Thomson was young. The elder Thomson was the founder of the Thomson Corporation, which is today a multi-faceted holding company with operations in 46 countries employing 39,000 people. Thomson Corporation was formerly best known as a newspaper company whose properties included The Times, but has since Roy's death divested almost all its traditional newspaper assets in favour of electronic information services and products, save The Globe and Mail daily. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... North Bay (, time zone EST) is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada (2001 population 52,771). ... Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet (June 5, 1894 – August 4, 1976), was a newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur. ... The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC TSX: TOC) is one of the worlds largest information companies, focused on providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ...

The Thomson Family owns approximately 63% of the Thomson Corporation.

Kenneth Thomson was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and at St. John's College of Cambridge University in the UK (he received his degree in Economics and Law). During World War II, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Following the war, he completed his education and entered the family business. In 1956, he married Nora Marilyn Lavis, with whom he had three children: David, Peter, and Lynne (now known as Taylor). Upper Canada College (UCC) is an all-male elementary and secondary school in Toronto, Canada, the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario and the third oldest school in Canada. ... Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College Balliol College Master Prof. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the air force of Canada from 1924 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Forces. ... David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. ... Peter John Thomson (born 25 April 1965) is a Canadian rally race car driver with Thomson Motorsport and a venture capitalist. ...

Media owner

On his father's death, Thomson succeeded as 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet. However, Thomson never used his noble title in Canada and never took up his seat in the House of Lords. In a 1980 interview with Saturday Night magazine he said "In London I'm Lord Thomson, in Toronto I'm Ken. I have two sets of Christmas cards and two sets of stationery. You might say I'm having my cake and eating it too. I'm honouring a promise to my father by being Lord Thomson, and at the same time I can just be Ken."[1] This article is about the British House of Lords. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Saturday Night can refer to: // Saturday Night by Whigfield was a massive hit in 1994. ...

Rich as he was, he was also known for his down-to-earth demeanor: he bought his suits "off the rack", was once seen wearing shoes with holes in them, and one was just as likely to bump into him walking his dogs in the Rosedale area near his home than at any glitzy smoozefest. He was unfailingly courteous and patient with everyone he met, even total strangers. Ken regularly visited the Toronto Humane Society, where he comforted and walked the dog inmates. I wont stop until Dat dere cell-tech is on the English language article: Ronnie coleman! ...

He also succeeded his father as chair of what was then a media empire made up of extensive newspaper and television holdings. The Thomson media empire added the prestigious Globe and Mail in Toronto to The Times and Sunday Times in Britain and The Jerusalem Post in Israel. Under Lord Thomson of Fleet, the Thomson Corporation sold its North Sea oil holdings and sold The Times to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and the Jerusalem Post to Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. The Globe and Mail was combined with BCE's cable and television assets (including CTV and The Sports Network) to form Bell Globemedia, controlled by BCE with Thomson as a minority shareholder. The company then sold all of its community newspapers to become a financial data services giant and one of the world's most powerful information services and academic publishing companies. Today, the company operates primarily in the United States from its headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. In 2002, The Thomson Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as "TOC". The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... The May 16, 1948 Palestine Post headline announcing the creation of the state of Israel The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English language broadsheet newspaper, originally founded on December 1, 1932, by American journalist-turned-newspaper-editor Gershon Agron as the The Palestine Post. ... // North Sea Oil Platforms North Sea oil refers to oil and natural gas (hydrocarbons) produced from oil reservoirs beneath the North Sea. ... Rupert Murdoch (born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media mogul. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour OC, PC, (born August 25, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec), is a British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ... Hollinger Inc. ... Bell Canada Enterprises is a major telecommunications company and a provider of telephone services in Canada. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... TSN redirects here. ... Bell Globemedia Inc. ... Nickname: The City That Works Location in Connecticut Coordinates: NECTA Bridgeport-Stamford Region South Western Region Settled 1641 Incorporated (city) 1893 Consolidated 1949 Government type Mayor-Board of representatives Mayor Dannel Malloy (Dem) Area    - City 52. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ...

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. Between the time of that report and his death, he jumped six positions to ninth with assets of almost $22.6 billion. Alternate meaning: For the Boston Brahmin family associated with John Forbes Kerry, see Forbes family. ...

Over the past fifty years, Thomson distinguished himself as one of North America's leading art collectors and has been a major benefactor to the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2002 he paid the highest price ever for a Canadian painting when he purchased Canadian artist Paul Kane's "Scene from the Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy."^[3] At a Sotheby's auction that year, Thomson purchased Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" for £49.5 million (US $77 million). The main entrance to the AGO The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Torontos downtown Chinatown district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. ... This article is about the painter. ... PR shot of Sothebys New York, from auditions for The Apprentice 2  It should be possible to replace this fair use image with a freely licensed one. ... Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower Alte Pinakothek Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. ... Peter Paul Rubens. ...

Retirement

In 2002, Lord Thomson of Fleet stepped down as Chair of Thomson Corporation, installing his eldest son, David Thomson. He retained his positions as Chairman of Woodbridge, the family's holding company, which owns a controlling share of Thomson Corporation. Following his retirement from active business, he donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario nearly 2,000 art works worth more than US $300 million, representing the finest private art collection in Canada. His gift contained masterpieces by renowned Canadian artists plus those from his collection of European works of art dating from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century, including Rubens' Massacre of the Innocents. David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1958) is a Canadian businessman. ... The main entrance to the AGO The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Torontos downtown Chinatown district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower Alte Pinakothek Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. ... Peter Paul Rubens. ...

Thomson died from a heart attack at about 8am EST on June 12, 2006, at his office in Toronto. [2] June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

"Obituary: A man of small economies and grand generosities", by Sandra Martin, Globe and Mail, June 12, 2006 [3]. June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Official history of the Thomson family and Thomson Corp. (pdf file)
• Forbes Magazines he is 9th richest man 2006
• Forbes Magazines 25 richest men 2006