The city was also the home of Yang Bin, a horticulturist whose fortune (earned elsewhere) briefly made him China's richest man before he was arrested for corruption.
With a fortune earned as a maker of auto headlamps, Fisher set himself to creating a proper setting for motor sports, away from the traditional (and dangerous) horse tracks and public roads to a new purpose-built facility.
The fortune earned from the phosphate works was mismanaged and poured into dubious investments, and the country's current budget deficit of £15m represents more than half its GDP.
When the action at last moves from Devon to Australia, the story transposes into heroic romance, and it too manages to incorporate the sensational possibilities of the colonial experience: bushrangers and bushfires, floods and hostile Aboriginals, the tragic outcome of being lost in the bush, cattle branding and horse galloping, and a fortune earned.
He recently became the youngest player in league history to reach 9,000 points, at not quite 23, and, according to a recent article in Fortune, earns $25 million a year in endorsements, the third highest figure in sports, in addition to his $13 million salary.
The drugs baron was last in the news in June, when the US treasury department announced sanctions against 18 individuals and businesses linked to him, including relatives, which it claimed were involved in a money laundering network set up to clean a fortune earned through drug trafficking.
He says he spent $8 million of a fortune earned from his 1976 invention of a wireless gizmo that unlocks car doors.
Sunderland rode their luck at Everton and again against at Arsenal on Wednesday but it was fortune earned and the sight of Uruguayan defender Sebastian Coates, a misfit at Liverpool, hurling himself in the way of shots at Emirates Stadium alongside veteran John O'Shea was a sign of the spirit and camaraderie fostered by Advocaat.
Even though Berkshire Hathaway 's Warren Buffett Warren Buffett, whose $42.9 billion fortune earns him the second spot on the 2004 Forbes list of the World's Richest People, still lives in the same modest Omaha, Neb., house he purchased in 1958 for $31,500, most billionaires buy homes to match their bank accounts.
Here is a feckless, clueless and self-important billionaire heir to a fortune earned in a bygone age, proudly spending his fortune bankrolling his feckless, ridiculous millionaire dependents as they go through their public, protracted, and hugely expensive mediocrity.
The media has been having a field day trying to figure out if the first-generation American is the heir to a great fortune earned by his Indian parents, or if he is just a goofball with too much time on his hands.
