Sir Patrick John Rushton Sergeant (born 17 March 1924) is a British journalist, investor and businessman who is the founder of Euromoney Institutional Investor. Previously, he served as the City Editor of the Daily Mail from 1960 to 1984. [1]
Patrick Sergeant was born on 17 March 1924 in King's Down, Kent. [2] He attended Beaumont College. [2]
Sergeant served in Royal Navy before joining Mullens & Co. [2]
In 1948, he joined News Chronicle as a reporter. [2] From 1960 to 1984, he was the City Editor of the Daily Mail . [2] Later, he served as a director of Daily Mail and General Trust Plc from 1992 to 2004. [3]
He announced his retirement from the board of Euromoney in 2018. [4]
Sergeant has lived in Highgate since 1961. [5]
His daughter, Emma Sergeant (b. 1959), is an artist. [6] [7] She was firstly married to Nobile Riccardo, dei Conti Pavoncelli (b. 1957) and secondly to Count Stefan Zamoyski (b. 1949). [8]
He turned 100 in 2024. [5]
William George Rushton was an English actor, cartoonist, comedian and satirist who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye.
Viscount Portman, in the County of Somerset, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 March 1873, for the former Lord Lieutenant of Somerset and Liberal Member of Parliament Edward Portman, 1st Baron Portman. He had already been created Baron Portman, of Orchard Portman, on 27 January 1837, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son, the second Viscount, represented Shaftesbury and Dorset in the House of Commons as a Liberal. As of 2014, the titles have been held by one of the latter's great-great-grandsons, the tenth Viscount, since 1999.
Baron Trevethin, of Blaengawney in the County of Monmouth, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for the prominent judge Sir Alfred Lawrence, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1921 to 1922.
Sir Harold Matthew "Harry" Evans was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title The Times for a year from 1981, before being forced out of the latter post by Rupert Murdoch. While at The Sunday Times, he led the newspaper's campaign to seek compensation for mothers who had taken the morning sickness drug thalidomide, which led to their children having severely deformed limbs.
The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper. Formed by the merger of The Daily News and the Daily Chronicle in 1930, it ceased publication on 17 October 1960, being absorbed into the Daily Mail. Its offices were at 12/22, Bouverie Street, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8DP, England.
Adam Zamoyski is a British historian and author descended from the historically important Polish nobility.
Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft is a British journalist and life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe. She left this role upon becoming a peer.
Delinian is a British financial media company that has interests in business and financial publishing and event organisation.
Euromoney is an English-language monthly magazine focused on business and finance. First published in 1969, it is the flagship production of Euromoney Institutional Investor plc.
Glendon and Rushton railway station is a Grade II listed former railway station in Rushton, Northamptonshire.
Sir Lawrence Walter William Weaver (1876–1930) was an English architectural writer and civil servant.
Sir Stephen Harry Waley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet is an English theatre owner-manager and producer, following a career as a businessman and financial journalist. He manages the St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End and is the current producer of the world's longest running play The Mousetrap. He was Chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Council.
Peter Martin Harkness is a British media entrepreneur and investor. A former journalist, he is as of May 2023 a director of the business data specialist GlobalData plc.
Naomi Heaton is Group Chairman and owner of UK real estate investment advisory London Central Portfolio Limited (LCP) and associated companies, LCP Corp, LCP Capital Investments, LCP HQ and LCP Hospitality Holdings. Dubbed "property queen" by the London Evening Standard, Naomi set up one of the first buying agents in the UK and was a pioneer of residential property funds targeting central London's rental sector, including the UK's first sharia-compliant residential fund. In December 2019, LCP Hospitality Holdings entered a joint venture partnership with APG, the Dutch Pension Provider, to establish The Portfolio Club with the purpose of launching a new hospitality brand, initially in central London. Called The Other House, Naomi is co-founder and Chief Executive.
Sir Ian Roger Bauckham is a British educator and public servant.