Clive Richards, City financier and owner of the finest collection of Nelson letters in private hands – obituary
Business successes enabled Richards to buy a Herefordshire estate and expand it to a multi-faceted rural enterprise of some 2,500 acres
Clive and Sylvia Richards
Clive Richards, who has died aged 83, was a City entrepreneur, Herefordshire farmer, generous philanthropist and leading collector of artefacts relating to Nelson and Brunel.
Richards was finance director of the merchant bank NM Rothschild & Sons before striking out on his own in 1976 as a venture capitalist and corporate financier. Over the following decades he held almost 60 directorships, buying and selling many businesses and launching several on the stock market.