Darius Guppy
Darius Guppy (born 1964) is a British-Iranian businessman, noted for his colourful ancestry, high-society contacts and unconventional opinions.
When his father was ruined in the 1990s crisis at Lloyd's of London, Guppy sought revenge by successfully claiming from Lloyd's after a faked jewel robbery. Betrayed by an accomplice, he was eventually jailed.
Guppy now lives with his family in South Africa and has expressed contempt for modern Britain and western governments in general as well as an intense dislike of the British media.
Early life
Guppy's mother was the Iranian author and singer Shusha Guppy (1935–2008). His grandfather on his mother's side was the philosopher and theologian Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Kazem Assar, who held the chair of philosophy at Tehran University; his maternal cousin, another Assar grandson, is Hooman Majd.
His father was Nicholas Guppy, the writer and explorer who died May 2012 in Bali. On his father's side he is a descendant of Lechmere Guppy, the naturalist who discovered the eponymous fish, as well as the inventor Sarah Guppy, Thomas Guppy, the engineer and business partner of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the explorer Amelia Guppy, Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt (founder of the Hellfire Club) and the medieval Plantagenet family.
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