Published on Sunday, the list identified the 300 wealthiest Brits based on their business interests, property and other valuable assets such as art collections or private jets.
hose living in Jersey or with strong connections to the Island include the widow of Flybe founder Jack Walker, Carole, who the newspaper ranks as the 56th wealthiest person in Britain.
The Mail on Sunday estimate that Mrs Walker and her family are worth £590m, up £40m on last year based on the improved fortunes of the rebranded airline.
roperty developer and racehorse owner Trevor Hemmings’s £550m puts him at 65th on the list.
The newspaper believes that the Jersey resident’s fortune – which includes Blackpool Tower and more than 700 pubs – has grown by £55m over the last 12 months.
edrow founder Steve Morgan lies 137th with £304m.
Mr Morgan, who has a home in St Brelade, has increased his wealth by £57m since last year and is reported to have built an £8m house in Cheshire since splitting from his wife Pam, who owns Trinity Manor.
ther Jersey residents on the list include MyTravel founder David Crossland (ranked 215, worth £190m), the Club Carrefour owner Brian de Zille (264, £150m) and Phyllis Som-ers, widow of the former Southampton Airport owner Nat Somers (289, £135m).
Former St Brelade resident David Murray, who used to chair Glasgow Rangers, is ranked 158 and worth £256m, while the new owners of the Jersey Evening Post, the Graham family, are ranked 292 with an estimated £132m fortune.
thers with connections to the Channel Islands include the Brecqhou-owning Barclay brothers (59, £575m), former Guernsey residents Jonathan and David Rowland (49, £650m) and Express owner Richard Desmond (75, £495m), whose Television X adult channel is based in St Saviour’s Road.
n a separate list of Britain’s richest novelists, St Brelade resident Harry Patterson comes in at fourth with a £58m fortune from his numerous thrillers.
he Mail on Sunday identifies 3.
per cent of its list as living in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
This is considerably more than Northern Ireland’s 1 per cent or Wales’s 0.
per cent.
