Richard Carr (businessman)

Last updated

Richard Charles Lascelles Carr (born 22 July 1938) is a former director of Arsenal Holdings PLC ("Arsenal") and a former director and board member of Arsenal Football Club, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arsenal Holdings PLC. He held 2,722 shares (4.6%) in Arsenal till May 2008, when he sold them to Stan Kroenke. [1]

Biography

He is the grandson of former Arsenal Chairman Sir Bracewell Smith through his mother Eileen Smith.[ citation needed ] His father Henry Lascelles Carr played cricket for Glamorgan, served in the RAF in the Second World War and died in 1943. [2] He married Edda Armbrust in 1960; their daughter, Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, is Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales. [3] His half-sister, Lady Sarah Phipps-Bagge, held 2% of the shares in the club. His brother Clive Carr is the football club's former Life Vice-President. [4]

Richard Carr has formerly held directorships of Lee Yang Enterprise Limited, the Park Lane Hotel Ltd and Tymals Investments Ltd. Tymals Investments Ltd was dissolved in 1999, the other director was fellow former Arsenal board member Nina Bracewell-Smith.

Related Research Articles

Peter Denis Hill-Wood was a British businessman and a chairman of Arsenal Football Club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Dein</span> British football administrator and executive

David Barry Dein is a British businessman, known for being a former co-owner and vice-chairman of Arsenal Football Club, and founding the Premier League.

Sir Bracewell Smith, 1st Baronet was a British businessman, Conservative Party politician and the 619th Lord Mayor of London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stan Kroenke</span> American billionaire businessman (born 1947)

Enos Stanley Kroenke is an American billionaire businessman. He is the owner of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which is the holding company of Arsenal F.C. of the Premier League and Arsenal W.F.C. of the WSL, the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, Denver Nuggets of the NBA, Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League, the Los Angeles Gladiators of the Overwatch League, and the Los Angeles Guerrillas of the Call of Duty League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kroenke Sports & Entertainment</span> American sports and entertainment company

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) is an American sports and entertainment holding company based in Denver, Colorado. Originally known as Kroenke Sports Enterprises, it was started in 1999 by businessman Stan Kroenke to be the parent company of his sports holdings. Today, the company has control of over five professional sport franchises, and one association football club that has two teams: Arsenal F.C. and Arsenal W.F.C., four stadiums, two professional esports franchised teams, four television channels, an internet TV channel, & 19 magazines which operate under the badge Outdoor Sportsman Group, four radio stations which operate under the badge KSE Radio Ventures, LLC, and websites.

Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC was the parent company of Southampton Football Club Ltd and was listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. The company was placed into administration on 2 April 2009.

Nina, Lady Bracewell-Smith is an Indian-born businesswoman who has since March 2013 been based in Monaco. She was a major shareholder and former non-executive director of the Premier League football club Arsenal.

Daniel David Fiszman was an English diamond dealer, best known as a shareholder in and director of Arsenal Football Club, and played a leading role in the club's move from Highbury to Ashburton Grove, now known as Emirates Stadium.

Clive Carr is a former vice-president of Arsenal Football Club and a former hotelier.

Sir Charles Bracewell-Smith, 4th Baronet was born in October 1955 and educated at Harrow School. He is the founder of the Homestead Charitable Trust and author of "The Song of the Saints". He is a grandson of Bracewell Smith and son of George Bracewell Smith. He succeeded to the baronetcy after the death of his brother Guy Bracewell Smith in 1983 at the age of 30. Bracewell-Smith married Carol Hough in 1977; Hough died in July 1994. He subsequently remarried, in 1996, to Nina Kakkar. He has no children.

Sir George Bracewell Smith, 2nd Baronet MBE,, was a City of London business man who owned the Ritz Hotel and several others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Farhad Moshiri</span> British-Iranian businessman (born 1955)

Ardavan Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman based in Monaco. He is the majority owner and board member of English Premier League team Everton FC, and is the former chairman of USM Holdings, a Russian holding company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arsenal Supporters' Trust</span>

The Arsenal Supporters' Trust is the official supporters' trust of Arsenal Football Club, as recognised by Supporters Direct. The group, like other supporters' trusts, seeks to strengthen the influence of supporters over the destiny of their clubs through democratic supporter ownership.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ownership of Arsenal F.C. & W.F.C.</span> Legal aspect of the English football teams

The ownership of Arsenal F.C. and Arsenal W.F.C. is considerably different from that of other clubs in English football for men and women. It is owned by a parent company, Arsenal Holdings plc, which has relatively few shares which are infrequently traded. Historically, the club has been owned by descendants of the Bracewell-Smith and Hill-Wood families. The club attracted outside interest as two rival tycoons, Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov, acquired significant share holdings in 2007. In August 2018, Kroenke's offer of £550 million for Usmanov's share was accepted, and Kroenke bought out the remainder of the shares to become the club's sole shareholder.

Birmingham Sports Holdings is an investment holding company owned by Chinese businessman Paul Suen through his investment company Trillion Trophy Asia.

Landmark Mortgages Limited, formerly Northern Rock plc and later NRAM plc, is a British asset holding and management company which was split away from the Northern Rock bank in 2010. It was publicly owned through the British Government's UK Asset Resolution following Northern Rock's nationalisation in 2008 until NRAM plc was sold to Cerberus Capital Management in 2016. The company is closed to new business.

Rangers is a Scottish football club based in Glasgow. They were founded in 1872 and incorporated in 1899, forming the company The Rangers Football Club Ltd. In 2000, then chairman and owner Sir David Murray floated the club on the stock market which subsequently made the private company into a public limited company (PLC).

Club 1872 is a supporters group for fans of the Scottish football club Rangers.

James Mellon is a British businessman.

The Smith baronetcy of Keighley, Yorkshire was created on 28 June 1947 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for Bracewell Smith, a hotelier and Conservative politician. He was Unionist Member of Parliament for Dulwich from 1932 to 1945, and Lord Mayor of London 1946–7.

References

  1. Wilson, Jeremy (17 December 2008). "Arsenal's boardroom bombshell". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  2. "Harry Carr". Cricinfo.
  3. Carr, Sue Lascelles, (Mrs A. Birch), Who's Who 2019 (A & C Black)
  4. "Online Gooner - Exclusive". www.onlinegooner.com. Archived from the original on 21 August 2007.