Haan, Sidney Isaac De (1919–2002), businessman, was born at 21 Mossford Street, Mile End, in the East End of London, on 6 February 1919, one of eleven children of Benjamin De Haan, who worked in the well-established local boot and shoe industry, and his wife, ...
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Hoseason, James William Nicholson [Jimmy] (1927–2009), holiday entrepreneur, was born at Keen's Farm, South Cove, near Southwold, Suffolk, on 6 November 1927, the son of William Ballantyne (Wally) Hoseason (1887–1950), a Shetlander, and his wife, Jessie Mary, née Nicholson (1893–1970), a Scottish cousin. His sister, ...
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Joseph, Sir Maxwell [formerly Max] (1910–1982), hotelier and property dealer, was born Max Joseph on 31 May 1910, at 21 Whitechapel Road, London, the second of the three sons of Jack Joseph, a journeyman tailor and property dealer, and his wife, Sarah Orler...
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Peter J. Lyth
Raitz, Vladimir Gavrilovich (1922–2010), holiday entrepreneur, was born on 23 May 1922 in Moscow, the son of Gavril Raitz, a medical doctor, and his wife, Cecilia, a dentist. Both parents were Russian Jews. In 1928 his parents separated and he left the Soviet Union...
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Anne Pimlott Baker
Stakis, Sir Reo [formerly Argyros Anastasis] (1913–2001), hotelier and businessman, was born Argyros Anastasis on 13 March 1913 in the village of Kato-Drys, near Lefkara, Cyprus, the eldest in the family of two sons and four daughters of Argyros Anastasis, a peasant farmer, and his wife, ...