Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie (born 1943) is a British businessman. A company he invested in, Porton International, sold at high prices when it seemed it had a cure for herpes. It collapsed when it turned out it did not and the company wound up selling at a discounted price to Ipsen Pharmaceutical.[ citation needed ]
He owned a collection of Rolls-Royces and an aviation museum housing and restoring many Spitfires. [1] He also owned Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire [2] – one of the largest private homes in Europe with an assumed 365 rooms. In the 1980s, he invested millions in a firm that claimed to have a cure for herpes [3] but it never materialised and in 1998 he admitted to debts of £13m. [4]
In 1994, Haydon-Baillie married Samantha Acland, a secretary.[ citation needed ] He was once the owner of the two largest passenger hovercraft in the world, the SRN4s, [5] and also one of the fastest superyachts in the world, the GTY Brave Challenger. [6]
Haydon-Baillie is a descendant of Royal Navy officer Jeremiah Coghlan. [7]
