Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Robert Holmes à Court" in English language version.
I think it's pretty fundamental. We want to be in this industry in 100 years' time. We've been in it only for 20 years. We have lots of people who work for us who have been here 40, nearly 50 years. But I've got 12 grandchildren and I hope I would like to think that they are visiting these places and their offspring are visiting them way into the future, and if that's going to be the case, then we have to operate these places and manage them sustainably.
... he felt betrayed when in 1982 he lost control of Associated Communications Corporation, the parent company of his television and other interests, to Robert Holmes à Court, an Australian. Lord Grade had felt so close to the Australian that he allowed him to buy 51% of the voting shares. Holmes à Court then deposed him in a boardroom coup and purged the company of all his staff, even, Lord Grade noted sadly, his tea lady. Later, he observed waspishly, "Robert died quite a young man, for all his millions."
