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]
References edit
- ^ "Touchdown Aviation". Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Wainwright, Martin (27 February 1999). "guardian.co.uk". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ "Porton International". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 300 (6735): 1291–1296. 1990. doi:10.1136/bmj.300.6735.1291. PMC 1663035.
- ^ "The mansion of mystery and malice". The Times. London. 11 February 2007. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ "Hovercraft museum's future in doubt". The News. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
- ^ "Payout for boat damage caused by Spinnaker Tower building work". The News. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
- ^ "Descendancy for Gen Sir William Marcus Coghlan". 1st Red. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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- My doomed love affair with England's greatest house, Transforming Network Infrastructure, February 16, 2007.
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