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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.
		Kenneth Thomson was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and at St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Thomson (890 words)

	David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson.
		Thomson attended Upper Canada College and received an MA in history from Selwyn College of the University of Cambridge in 1978.
		Thomson's "particularly bitter divorce action against his second wife" received extensive coverage in Maclean's newsmagazine but was largely ignored by other media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Thomson_(businessman) (484 words)

	Media magnate Ken Thomson dead at 82 - Boston.com
		Kenneth Thomson, the bashful billionaire who was Canada's richest person, has died at age 82.
		Thomson died Monday morning at his office in Toronto, a company spokesman said, adding that the cause of death was not immediately known.
		Thomson wore inexpensive suits and his shoes were occasionally seen to be down at heels, as he seemed determined to play down his wealth and stay out of the public eye.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/06/12/media_magnate_ken_thomson_dead_at_82 (590 words)

	Guardian \| Lord Thomson of Fleet
		Thomson was born in Toronto - as was his father - the only son of Roy Thomson and his wife, Edna Alice Irvine.
		Kenneth worked in virtually every department of the paper, as a reporter, advertising salesman and general manager, a process he repeated in a number of other Thomson newspapers in Ontario before moving into the Toronto head office in the '1950s, to take charge of the group's Canadian and American operations.
		Kenneth Thomson was reputed to have been one of the world's dozen or so richest men.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329503191-103684,00.html (1312 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Lord Thomson of Fleet
		Kenneth Thomson may not have had the drive and imagination of his father, but he was a man of considerable ability, foreseeing, for example, the industrial problems in the newspaper industry and trying to take remedial action.
		Thomson was involved in many of the secret meetings with the Finlay family (then proprietors of The Scotsman) and slowly became a recognised figure in the old North Bridge offices.
		Thomson argued that the Times was grossly overmanned, carried on restrictive practices and that the unions were against the introduction of technology.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=872122006 (1309 words)

	PR Newswire Business News: Kenneth R. Thomson Dies This Morning at 82 - MSN Money
		Thomson, the only son of Roy Thomson, later Lord Thomson of Fleet, and Edna Thomson, was born in Toronto and raised in North Bay, Ontario and Toronto.
		Thomson was Chairman of The Woodbridge Company Limited, the Thomson family private investment company founded by his father.
		Thomson is survived by his wife, Marilyn, his three children, David, Taylor and Peter, and their families.
	news.moneycentral.msn.com /provider/providerarticle.asp?Feed=PR&Date=20060612&ID=5788919 (493 words)

	BookRags: Kenneth Thomson 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.
		Kenneth Thomson did alter the direction of the business, slowly reorganizing the empire so that profits from North Sea oil were removed from the restrictions of Great Britain and transferred to Canadian corporations.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/kenneth-thomson (1181 words)

	Son built on media legacy - Obituaries - smh.com.au
		The Thomson Corporation of Toronto, of which Kenneth Thomson - who rarely used his title - was chairman from 1976 to 2002, is now an international publisher of financial, legal and educational material in electronic form, having gradually withdrawn from the newspaper business which was its foundation.
		Kenneth Thomson's father, Roy, created Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1964, was by his own account "a roughneck Canadian" who had prospered by building a chain of newspapers and radio stations.
		Kenneth became chairman of Times Newspapers in 1968 but his commitment was not as emotionally driven as his father's.
	www.smh.com.au /news/obituaries/son-built-on-media-legacy/2006/06/23/1150845376333.html (826 words)

	Kenneth Thomson, 82, Canadian Publishing Tycoon - June 13, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Kenneth Thomson, the former chairman of Thomson Corp. who became Canada's richest man by turning a chain of newspapers into one of the world's biggest distributors of financial data, died yesterday at his office in Toronto of an apparent heart attack.
		Thomson was chairman of Thomson Corp., the owner of Westlaw legal research and First Call financial data, from 1978 until his retirement in 2002, when his eldest son David succeeded him.
		Thomson was known for his love of art, and was a collector of works by Cornelius Krieghoff, who painted scenes of Canadian rural life in the 19th century.
	www.nysun.com /article/34360 (460 words)

	David Thomson takes over stewardship of Canada's largest fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Kenneth Thomson inherited control of the family fortune, and the title Lord Thomson of Fleet, from company founder Roy Thomson in 1976, the corporation had an array of newspapers across Canada and the United States, mostly small-city titles known for high profitability and modest editorial attainments.
		Kenneth Thomson bought Hudson's Bay Co. in 1979 and the next year expanded his company's newspaper holdings further by acquiring FP Publications, which included The Globe and Mail.
		In 1993, Thomson Corp. began a decade-long process of purging its print-media holdings, though Woodbridge retained its connection to the Globe and Mail, and currently is raising its interest to 40 per cent in Bell Globemedia (TSX:BCE), which owns the CTV network as well as the national newspaper.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/media/060613/X061340U.html (699 words)

	Kenneth Thomson, Who Made Data Giant From a Newspaper Company, Dies at 82 - New York Times
		Thomson bought Wadsworth, a textbook publisher, in what was the first in a series of steps that would take it away from newspapers and toward the sale of specialized information to students and professionals.
		Thomson was willing to part with The Times, one of his father's prized possessions, he did not immediately move out of newspapers.
		Thomson is survived by his wife, Marilyn; three sons, David, who succeeded him as chairman of Thomson in 2002, Peter and Taylor; and a sister, Audrey Campbell.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/13/business/media/13THOMSON.html?ex=1307851200&en=6872ca41834004cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1232 words)

	globeandmail.com : Kenneth Thomson, 1923-2006
		Kenneth Thomson, former chairman of Thomson Corp., famous art collector and one of the world's wealthiest men, died of an apparent heart attack in his office Monday morning at age 82.
		Thomson was one of Canada's most successful businessmen and combined his financial acumen with his commitment to serve both his country and his community,” Mr.
		Thomson was reluctantly thrust into the spotlight in the past few years after his commitment to donate substantially all of his art collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20060612.wthomson0612/BNStory/Business/home (977 words)

	Kenneth Thomson: 1923-2006 \| Managing \| Live and Learn \| Canadian Business Online
		Thomson had arrived early that Monday at his office in downtown Toronto, an almost-daily ritual despite the fact that he had officially retired as chairman of Thomson Corp. in 2002 (though he still held the title of chairman at the family's private holding company, Woodbridge Co. Ltd.).
		Thomson came as often as three times a week, and it was a choice spot for family celebrations, including, says Aiello, an 80th birthday dinner in Ken's honour back in September 2003.
		Thomson's lack of pretense is one characteristic that all who knew him point to when summing up the man. His reticent, bashful demeanor--especially in public appearances--is juxtaposed with tales of personal warmth.
	www.canadianbusiness.com /managing/ceo_interviews/article.jsp?content=20060620_79007_79007 (1243 words)

	Kenneth Thomson's last western vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The last major art acquisition made by Kenneth Thomson, who died Monday morning at 82 of an apparent heart attack in his office, was at an auction two weeks ago at Vancouver's Heffel Gallery.
		Thomson, a billionaire media mogul, had donated in trust the bulk of his art collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario, about 2,000 works of art gathered over 50 years, about 800 of which were Canadian.
		"Kenneth Thomson was one of Canada's greatest art patrons, whose deep appreciation of Canadian historic painting included the work of West Coast artists Emily Carr and Frederick Varley," said Ian Thom, senior curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
	www.canada.com /vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=aa884797-e097-4fae-b188-1f60332e95b3 (361 words)

	Billionaire media mogul Kenneth Thomson dies at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Billionaire media mogul Kenneth Thomson, who was Canada's wealthiest man, died Monday at the age of 82.
		Worth an estimated $20 billion, Thomson was for more than 25 years the chairman of Thomson Corp., a newspaper publisher founded by his father Roy that was at one time the biggest in the country.
		Thomson's diverse business empire ranged from North Sea oil to travel agencies, the Hudson's Bay Co. and the Times of London, and included a significant stake in the CTV television network and the Globe and Mail newspaper, and a small stake in the Toronto Maple Leafs.
	www.canada.com /vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b1119681-f0f6-4812-956d-2e0ff51423a8&k=66374 (172 words)

	Kenneth Thomson as Collector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this respect, Thomson’s collection is encyclopedic rather than systematic, as he has never sought to acquire all the available examples of any one kind of object, but rather made his purchases each according to his appreciation of its distinctive merits.
		Thomson bought objects that simply appealed to him, but very rapidly his understanding and appreciation of quality grew, and he began to acquire better and better examples of those kinds of art works that had originally attracted his attention.
		Thomson began collecting Group of Seven and related material in 1970, collaborating closely with the Toronto dealer Blair Laing to acquire the finest pieces available, and again, building a collection of remarkable depth in specific areas: Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Miln, among them.
	www.ago.net /www/information/directors_message/reid-thomson.cfm (463 words)

	A life well collected Kenneth Thomson believed doing good would make good things happen. SANDRA MARTIN tells his tale - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Thomson wrote to shareholders to reassure them that their investment was safe because of the quality and dedication of the people running the myriad Thomson companies.
		The Thomsons may have been happy with their new newspapers, but many Canadians were afraid that the country had been chopped into two rival newspaper chains owned by the Thomson and the Southam families.
		Kenneth Roy Thomson was born in Toronto on Sept. 1, 1923.
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	CANOE -- CNEWS - Media News: Kenneth Thomson, dead at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Thomson wore inexpensive suits and his shoes tended to be down at heels, as he seemed determined to play down his wealth and stay out of the public eye.
		Thomson, who owned about 70 per cent of Thomson Corp. (TSX:TOC), became chairman of the global information group after the 1976 death of his father, Roy, and in 2002 turned the chairmanship over to his son, David.
		Thomson was one of Canada's most successful businessmen and combined his financial acumen with his commitment to serve both his country and his community," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a message of condolence.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/06/12/1627272-cp.html (1328 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kenneth Thomson remained on the company's board and was chairman of the Woodbridge Co. Ltd., the family holding company.
		Thomson, who was born on Sept. 1, 1923 in Toronto, assumed control of the Thomson family business in 1976 when his father and company founder Roy Thomson died, leaving ``Young Ken,'' as he was known, with newspapers that included London's Sunday Times and The Times.
		Thomson was known for his love of art, agreeing to donate most of his collection of more than 3,000 pieces of Canadian and Europe art to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a5YE5Hha7gf4&refer=canada (428 words)

	Kenneth Thomson; Canada's Richest Man
		Kenneth Thomson, 82, the former chairman of Thomson Corp. who became Canada's richest man by turning a chain of newspapers into one of the world's biggest distributors of financial data, died June 12 at his office in Toronto after an apparent heart attack.
		Thomson, who succeeded his father as Lord Thomson of Fleet, was ranked by Forbes magazine this year as the world's ninth-richest man. His fortune was estimated at $19.6 billion, trailing Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal.
		Kenneth Roy Thomson was born in 1923 in Toronto, the third child and only son of Roy Thomson -- a hard-driving creator of a business empire that began with a tiny radio station in northern Ontario and grew to embrace Canada's dominant newspaper group and other interests.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061502125.html (855 words)

	NEW ART: Kenneth Thomson the Collector
		Kenneth Thomson’s gift to the AGO of his art collection -- the most significant private art collection in Canada – will add 2,000 outstanding works to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
		The Thomson gift of European art includes a decorative arts collection of more than 500 objects, including the legendary 12th -century Malmesbury châsse, (image of chasse) an extraordinary selection of Baroque ivories (image of diptych) and a distinguished group of portrait miniatures dating from 1550 to 1850.
		The highlight of the Thomson European collection is the 17th century masterpiece by Peter Paul Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents.
	www.ago.net /transformation/new-art-collector.cfm (218 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Obituaries
		Under Ken Thomson, the Thomson Corp. and its corps of nonfamily managers sold most of the company's newspapers and other holdings to concentrate on providing specialist information to legal, investment, medical and other professionals, largely in electronic formats.
		Thomson's death is unlikely to have a material impact on the company, said Brendan Caldwell, president of Caldwell Securities Ltd., who recalled encountering the billionaire "in the oddest places." Those places included a bluegrass concert, a dark and deserted area on the fringes of the upscale Rosedale district where Mr.
		Thomson was walking his dogs, and, most recently, having Sunday brunch at a Golden Griddle family restaurant.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/obituaries/article/0,1299,DRMN_45_4770042,00.html (567 words)

	Billionaire Kenneth Thomson, Canada's richest man, dead at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		TORONTO (CP) - Kenneth Thomson, the bashful billionaire who was Canada's richest person, has died at age 82.
		Thomson, who owned about 70 per cent of the Thomson Corp. (TSX:TOC), had become chairman of the global information group after the 1976 death of his father, Roy, and turned the chairmanship over to his son, David, in 2002.
		He remained on the board of Thomson Corp. and headed the Woodbridge Co., his family's private investment company, and was ranked ninth on the Forbes magazine list of the world's wealthiest individuals with an estimated fortune of $19.6 billion US.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/business/060612/b061258.html (472 words)

	The Thomson Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Thomson Corporation (formerly The Thomson Group), one of the largest publishing empires in the world, is owned and controlled by the Thomson family.
		In 1994 the family, headed by Kenneth THOMSON, controlled 131 newspapers in the US, over 60 in Britain and 54 daily and weekly NEWSPAPERS in Canada, including the Globe and Mail.
		Currently, Thomson's flagship paper, the Globe and Mail, is in a fierce battle with SOUTHAM's National Post.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTA0007982 (197 words)

	THOMSON
		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)

	CTV.ca \| Media mogul Kenneth Thomson dies at 82
		Thomson was born on Sept. 1, 1923 in Toronto, Ont. as the third child and only son of Roy and Edna Thomson.
		Ken Thomson often said he wanted to be remembered as the head of an organization his father would have been proud of.
		Thomson is survived by his wife Marilyn, his three children David, Taylor, and Peter and their families; and his sister Audrey Campbell.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060612/kenneth_thomson_060612/20060612?hub=CTVNewsAt11 (1123 words)

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