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	Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (1 September 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the ninth richest person in the world, according to Forbes.com, with assets of approximately US $19.6 billion.
		Kenneth Thomson was born on September 1, 1923 in North Bay, Ontario.
		According to Forbes Magazine in 2005, the Thomson family is the richest in Canada, and Lord Thomson of Fleet was the fifteenth richest person in the world, with a personal net worth of US $17.9 billion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Roy_Thomson,_2nd_Baron_Thomson_of_Fleet (898 words)

	Guardian \| Lord Thomson of Fleet
		The last time I met Kenneth Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, who has died aged 82, was towards the end of the year-long dispute at the Times in 1979.
		His father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson of Fleet, had died in 1976, and there are some who say that Kenneth, who revered his father, never fully reconciled himself to life in Britain after the death.
		Thomson was born in Toronto - as was his father - the only son of Roy Thomson and his wife, Edna Alice Irvine.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329503191-103684,00.html (1321 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ken Thomson, media baron, Canada's richest man, dies at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson, who kept a relatively low profile compared with many newspaper barons, took over the family holdings in 1976 on the death of his father, Roy Thomson.
		Thomson Corp. hung on to the The Globe and Mail, which Ken Thomson had referred to as "the jewel in the crown" of the company.
		Thomson, an art lover and an avid collector of the 19th century Canadian landscape artist Cornelius Kreighoff, was said to be the complete opposite of his larger-than-life father.
	www.usatoday.com /money/media/2006-06-12-thomson_x.htm (624 words)

	Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomson was born in Toronto, the son of Herbert Thomson, an Ontario barber.
		Herbert Thomson was a telegraphist turned barber at the Grosvenor Hotel in Toronto and married English born Alice Coombs.
		Thomson’s ancestors were small tenant farmers on the estates of the Dukes of Buccleuch at Bo'ness, in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Thomson_of_Fleet (908 words)

	THOMSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The spelling Thomson is favoured in Scotland and Thompson in England.
		Thomsons have been part of Canadian history from the time of exploration to the present.
		The Thomson surname is associated with Clan Mactavish.
	www.chidlow.com /thomson.htm (213 words)

	Kenneth Thomson Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Kenneth Thomson (born 1923) represented the second generation of a powerful and influential print and broadcast journalism family that had significant impact in both Great Britain and North America.
		Kenneth Thomson used his title, Lord Thomson of Fleet, when in England, but refused to take his seat in the House of Lords because he did not wish to surrender his Canadian citizenship.
		In 2000, the 76-year-old Thomson, who had recently been ranked the world's 15th-richest person by Forbes, announced that he was planning to retire by 2002 and that he would hand the reigns of the company to his son David Thomson, who has been a member of the Thomson board.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/kenneth-thomson (1190 words)

	Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson found it tough selling radios in an area where there were no radio stations, and only spotty reception on some nights from the high powered, clear channel stations in the U. After some months of this drudgery, he decided to put a station on the air himself.
		Thomson set his sights on Timmins and CKGB went on the air in 1932, followed by CJKL Kirkland Lake in 1933.
		Thomson enquired of the owner if it was for sale, bought it on the same terms as the transmitter, and the former Timmins Citizen became The Press - Roy Thomson's first newspaper.
	www.broadcasting-history.ca /personalities/personalities.php?id=36 (587 words)

	Roy Herbert Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet
		Thomson also owned a half a dozen radio stations outside Canada and a dozen television stations, notably Scottish Television based in Glasgow.
		His Peerage was bestowed on him in 1964: "Baron Thomson of Fleet".
		Thomson's autobiography, After I was Sixty, notes the purchase on 3 September 1953 [London : Hamish Hamilton Limited, 1975.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/thomson_r/thomson_r.html (236 words)

	Top 10 Richest Men - tenth spot
		He is the son of Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, the founder of the Thomson Corporation, which is today a multi-faceted holding company with operations in 46 countries employing 39,000 people.
		On his father's death, Thomson succeeded as 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and as chair of what was then a media empire made up of extensive newspaper and television holdings.
		In 2002, Lord Thomson of Fleet stepped down as Chair of Thomson Corporation and was replaced by his son, David Thomson.
	www.richestmen.info /9.php (403 words)

	Clan: Thom(p)son
		Tradition has it that Alexander Thomson (1460-1513) was the grandson of an illegitimate son of the 11th Earl of Mar, grandson of King Robert II.
		Roy Thomson (1894-1976) who was born in Canada, the newspaper baron, was created Lord Thomson of Fleet, of Northbridge, in the City of Edinburgh, in 1964.
		THOMSON: This name means literally 'son of Thom or Thomas,' and it should be noted that its prevalence throughout the British Isles clearly shows that Thomas had been a popular forename from the Middle Ages.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/stoz/thomson2.html (624 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Norfolk \| Collector 'pushed' into £1.9m bid
		Ms Thomson, daughter of press baron Lord Thomson of Fleet, told the court how she bid for the urns over the telephone from the kitchen of her family's London home.
		Ms Thomson said she felt concern the day after the sale but had consoled herself that the urns were of museum quality.
		Ms Thomson claims that the urns are "inferior objects" bearing none of the hallmarks of French craftsmanship and dating from the mid-19th Century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/norfolk/3505724.stm (562 words)

	Thomson :: Emulators
		Thomson effect, named for William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, which is the heating or cooling of a current-carrying conductor when a temperature gradient is present
		Thomson Holidays, a UK based travel company founded by the Thomson Corporation in 1965.
		TEO/MacOS - A port of TEO, a Thomson TO8 emulator, for MacOS.
	computers.gourt.com /Emulators/Thomson.html (616 words)

	Thomson, Roy Herbert, Baron Thomson of Fleet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson, Roy Herbert, Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper tycoon (b at Toronto 5 Jun 1894; d at London, Eng 4 Aug 1976).
		The son of a Toronto barber, Thomson showed little potential to become wealthy and notable until middle age, when he emerged as the owner of small radio stations and newspapers in northern Ontario.
		He went on to control hundreds of newspapers in the US, Canada and the Commonwealth, including the Scotsman of Edinburgh (his first large prize) and The Times and Sunday Times of London.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007980 (191 words)

	Thomson's Bloomberg Envy - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thomson executives hope to raise a global electronic data service provider with the scope and brand recognition of a Bloomberg or Reuters rtrsy (nasdaq: rtrsy - news - people) from the ashes of this venerable newspaper company.
		Thomson had revenue of $6.3 billion and turned a profit of $1.6 billion in 1998, up 10.4% from a year earlier.
		It's unclear whether Thomson publications like this will still be able to attract and retain the journalistic talent that they were known for in the past.
	www.forbes.com /2000/07/11/feat.html (1575 words)

	Conrad Black: press baron or ‘robber baron’?
		For many years, the Thomson chain’s papers managed to have 30 per cent profit margins at a time when large dailies that faced local competition had to settle for much less, and in some cases couldn’t break even.
		As one small example, purchase of the Orangeville Banner from Thomson was quickly accompanied by a drastic shrinkage of the paper’s editorial staff and converting the advertising staff’s compensation from salary plus commission to pure commissions (so as to make the selling more aggressive).
		Just a few years ago, Lord Black was clearly Canada’s leading press baron, having achieved control of Southam Corp. and its collection of major dailies across the country as well as ownership of most of the former Thomson papers.
	www.citizen.on.ca /news/2005/1124/Editorial/021.html (890 words)

	Wealthy families donate $33 million for cancer projects
		Descendants of late newspaper magnate Roy Thomson donated $25 million for breast cancer research, in what is thought to be the single largest gift for cancer research in Canadian history.
		Thomson's daughter, Audrey Campbell, and her three daughters made the donation to the Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital on Monday.
		The man who would become the 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet was born in 1894 in Toronto, the son of a barber.
	www.cbc.ca /news/story/2004/10/25/thomsondonation_041025.html (1210 words)

	second obit with more family info- KEN THOMSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Reply to: Ken THOMSON obit june 2006 by R Johnson
		Kenneth THOMSON was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and at St. John's College of Cambridge University in the UK (he received his degree in Economics and Law).
		In 2002 he paid the highest price ever for a Canadian painting when he purchased Canadian artist Paul Kane's "Scene from the Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy."[3] At a Sotheby's auction that year, Thomson purchased Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" for £49.5 million (US $77 million).
	genforum.genealogy.com /thomson/messages/1699.html (825 words)

	Bay Street SEO - About the Toronto Financial Commerce District
		Another unusual building is the bowl shaped Roy Thomson Hall.
		It was named after the Canadian newspaper mogul, Baron Thomson of Fleet.
		Roy Thomson Hall is a world-class auditorium and home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn Choir and other visiting orchestras.
	www.bayst-search-engine-optimization.com /roy-thomson-hall.html (187 words)

	Anecdote - Lord Roy Herbert, First Baron Thomson of Fleet Thomson - Hard Times? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Celebrity Anecdotes is a 2006 IPPY Award nominee: True funny stories (embarrassing moments, pranks, bloopers, quips, insults...) about 48 celebs from Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney and Johnny Depp to Arnold, Cher, Jacko, Ozzy, Tiger & Donald Trump.
		While driving to the office one day, Lord Thomson's son (and co-chairman) Kenneth, produced a copy of The Times and began to flip through it.
		Thomson, Lord Roy Herbert, First Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894-1976) Canadian-born British newspaper baron, owner of The Times (from 1966)
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=4912 (170 words)

	Ken Thomson - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The name may also refer to Kenneth Thompson...
		Before they hit it big, Matthew McConaughey, Jen Aniston and others hammed it up in horror flicks.
		Ken Thomson - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Ken Thomson Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/ken-thomson/70712/main (125 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Last Word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Canadian peer Kenneth Thomson took over the running of the publishing and travel business, the Thomson Group, from his flamboyant father Roy Thomson.
		Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, was born September 1st 1923.
		Charles Haughey, Gyorgy Ligeti and Lord Kenneth Thomson.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/news/lastword_16junee2006.shtml (786 words)

	Toronto Attractions - Things to do in Toronto, Ontario
		One of the city's main shopping areas is located at Queens Quay, also the location to catch the ferry to visit the lovely Toronto Islands.
		Named for the late Canadian newspaper mogul, Baron Thomson of Fleet, Roy Thomson Hall is the city's world-class auditorium and home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn Choir.
		Opened in 1982, Roy Thomson Hall has accommodated some of the world's greatest performers.
	www.cambridgesuitestoronto.com /things_to_see.asp (654 words)

	Articles - Most Expensive Paintings Ever
		This painting by Peter Paul Rubens, painted in 1611, is the oldest painting in this list.
		It was sold to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for £49.5 million ($76.7 million) on July 10, 2002 at Sotheby's auction.
		Les Noces de Pierrette is another painting created by Spanish artist and sculptor, Pablo Picasso amongst most expensive paintings.
	www.renoir.org.yu /most-expensive-paintings.asp (1021 words)

	Desbladet: på nätet sedan 2001.
		When the daughter of a billionaire press baron outbid an oil dynasty heiress for lot 56, the £2 million pricetag for two gilded urns forged during the reign of Louis XV could have been a steal.
		Ms Thomson had claimed she was not an experienced collector and relied heavily on Christie's for advice.
		She says she believed she had bought museum-quality pieces until a conversation with the leading French dealer almost four years later.
	piginawig.diaryland.com /040517.html (4633 words)

	Portrait Gallery of Canada
		Roy Herbert, First Baron Thomson of Fleet, 1967
		Roy Thomson (1894-1976) was a significant figure not only in Canadian but also in international business.
		His rise from “rags to riches” began in North Bay, Ontario, where he started his own radio station in 1931, followed by the purchase of the Timmins Daily Press, the first of many newspapers.
	www.portraits.gc.ca /009001-2000-e.html (723 words)

	Other Links
		Founder: Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Lord of Fleet.
		Read about the 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
		Read about the 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
	www.ourfamilyleaves.org /familyleaves/links.htm (135 words)

	Family Leaves
		William's descendants later brought another branch of the Robertson Clan to Canada.
		See the suggested ancestry for Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Lord of Fleet.
		Some of these pages are slow to load due to their large size.
	ourfamilyleaves.org (182 words)

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