Ron Brierley

Sir Ronald Alfred "Ron" Brierley (born 2 August 1937) is a New Zealand investor and corporate raider, chairman and director of a number of companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

He founded "R. A. Brierley Investments" (BIL; from October 2007 GuocoLeisure ) in March 1961 with no capital. By 1984 BIL was the largest company in New Zealand by market capitalization, and in 1987 had 160,000 shareholders, with a stake in over 300 companies, including Paris department store Galleries Lafayette and Air New Zealand.

Personal life

Brierley was born in Wellington during 1937 to middle class parents. He went to primary school at Island Bay School, and Wellington College.

At Wellington College he joined the New Stamp Dealers Federation, and began his first business venture selling stamps to students and staff. He is still one of the largest buyers and sellers of stamps in the world, and he is recognised by the name "Lionheart".

Brierley is a fan of cricket, being a Trustee of the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust 1988-96, and President of New Zealand Cricket in 1995. He also likes travelling by train. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1988 New Year Honours, for services to business management and the community.

Brierley

Coordinates: 53°35′41″N 1°22′55″W / 53.5947°N 1.38201°W / 53.5947; -1.38201

Brierley (pronounced as "bry"-"early") is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The town, situated close to the border with West Yorkshire, is at the south of the A628 road, and is less than 2 miles (3 km) to the south-west of Hemsworth.

The civil parish of Brierley contains the large pit village of Grimethorpe, and at the 2001 census had a population of 5,973.

Brierley lies approximately 330 feet (100 m) above sea level.

History

Brierley was an early Saxon settlement. The fort at Brierley Gap, mistakenly called Saxon, is from a much earlier period - probably the Iron Age. The village grew first around the hill top on the Barnsley to Pontefract road where a small hollow and the sites of several wells provided a good building area. Along Ket Hill Lane, coal seams come to the surface and form part of the soil so coal must have been known to these early farmers. Sandstone and coal in alternate layers are the underlying rocks of the area.

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