Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937 – 2 September 1990) was a South African-born Australian businessman who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 53.
There he earned money selling his schoolmates photographs he had taken of them, and by driving them home in exchange for their travel allowances. Holmes à Court studied forestry at the University of Auckland and Massey University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in 1962.
Holmes à Court's father, Robert Holmes à Court, died intestate leaving his wife Janet one third of the family fortune with the four children getting the other two-thirds. The amount Peter Holmes à Court received was reported as A$35 million.
Janet taught science before marrying Robert in 1966 and raising four children whilst also being a supportive wife who worked in his office. Weekends were spent at Heytesbury Stud where Robert successfully bred race horses.
She currently lives in Perth. As her children left home, she developed interests in medical research, the arts and various charitable organisations. After the death of her husband, she took over management of Heytesbury Pty Ltd, which was considerably in debt, rescuing and expanding it.
He was educated at Cordwalles Preparatory School and Michaelhouse School in Natal, South Africa. There he earned money selling his schoolmates photographs he had taken of them, and by driving them home in exchange for their travel allowances.
In 1986-90 he chaired the board of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Survived by his wife and their three sons and a daughter, Holmes à Court died of myocardial infarction on 2 September 1990 at Kelmscott, Perth, and was cremated. He died intestate, with assets estimated to be worth over $800 million.
Simon Holmes à Court is the convenor of Climate 200, a "movement" that's so far received 8,000 donations to support the campaigns of independents contesting the Liberal-held inner-city seats of Wentworth, North Sydney and MacKellar in New South Wales and Goldstein and Kooyong in Victoria.
2018: $417 million
The Kailis family are still doing very well from the WA seafood game despite selling big chunks of their key operations to big Asian players.
Sydney man about town Tim Holmes a Court and his Melbourne-raised girlfriend Amanda Valmorbida have quietly become engaged. Emerald City understands the couple recently got engaged in Sydney where they have resided together for the past five years having previously lived in London.
In 1966, she married lawyer Robert Holmes a Court. In 1970, he became a businessman and built up an impressive land, property and mining portfolio.
Robert Holmes à Court, in full Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes À Court, (born July 27, 1937, Johannesburg, S. Afr. —died Sept. 2, 1990, Heytesbury, near Perth, Western Australia), Australian entrepreneur nicknamed “the Great Acquirer” for his billion-dollar raids on major companies in England and Australia.
Holmes à Court History. The Holmes à Court name was created in 1833 when William Ashe à Court married Elizabeth Holmes in Calbourne, Isle of Wight. William later became the 2nd Lord Heytesbury and succeeded to the Heytesbury Estate when his father died in 1860.
Tim is a relative of Peter Holmes à Court, and whose grandfather Robert was Australia's first billionaire, and his wife, Tim's grandmother, Janet, 78, one of the country's richest women.
Holmes Institute and Holmes College is an Australian provider of higher education courses. It is privately owned with campuses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Cairns and Hong Kong (HK locations seems closed). Holmes Institute was established in 1963 as a commercial college in Melbourne.
The teal independents, community independents, or sometimes simply teals, are a loosely-aligned group of independent and minor party politicians in Australian politics.
Background. The convenor of Climate 200 is Simon Holmes à Court, who was a part of Josh Frydenberg's fundraising group, the Kooyong 200. With a background in renewable energy and climate policy, Holmes à Court wrote an article in 2018 that was critical of the Coalition's efforts to keep coal fired power stations open.
Heytesbury Pastoral is owned and managed by the Holmes à Court family and is part of the Heytesbury Group of Companies, headquartered in Perth.
Ltd. is the privately owned company of the Holmes à Court family in Western Australia.
Peter Holmes à Court is an Australian businessman and investment manager. He is a regular attendee at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.
Holmes bases her research on Brown and Levinson's idea of positive and negative face. She says that women use more positively orientated politeness and that men use more negatively orientated politeness.
She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project, an ongoing study of communication in the workplace which has described small talk, humour, management strategies, directives, and leadership in a wide range of New Zealand workplaces.