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Rupert St. George Riley F/Mc Married: 1939-Sep-12 Barbara (Babs) Mary Mackenziec | ||||||||
| Martin Rupert Riley [CFT #1812] Born: 1943-Jul-10 Died: 2019 |
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| b Woking, Surrey Named Martin in memory of Martin Gibson Watt who was killed in the Navy shortly before he was born. Martin is a Trustee of The Bulldog Trust (amazing premises in London) and has made several generous donations to the Trust. He takes all his family to Cyprus on holiday when he can to coincide with Timothy's returns from USA. The following notes are put together from eulogies given at Martin's Thanksgiving Service in September 2019. Whilst up at Pembroke, inter alia, he represented Cambridge in the annual wine tasting varsity competition with Oxford. After Pembroke he took his accountancy articles and joined Fenn & Crosthwaite where he became a partner in 1973. His friend, Richard Jewson recalled that his early experiences were not all easy. Having just bought into the partnership he had to stump up to get through the 1974 crash and the subsequent bear market. It is sobering to remember that the key index fell by 73% before touching rock-bottom in 1975. Clearly experience made him and he went on to a stellar career as a stockbroker preferring private clients to institutions. His positive manner, good ideas and sound common sense were evident when he was on the Board of the Temple Bar Investment Trust and again as Chairman of SR Europe Trust where his exemplary behaviour and expertise were clearly recognised and appreciated across the investment community. Tigger Hoare invited him to become a shareholder in Bulldog Holdings which they ran together from the early 70s and this turned out to be one of the things he enjoyed best. Throughout his career he seems to have been good at providing consistent and steady compound growth from carefully researched portfolios. He had a profound and lasting impact upon the Howard Group helping to shape the family's vision and purpose for the business. His son Will who has followed his father into the investment business says that his father taught him the importance of thinking for himself and having conviction in his own ideas. He taught a few of us that there is no need to sacrifice even an inch of integrity to be successful. Martin was a family man, understated with qualities of kindness, generosity, loyalty, honesty, charm, intelligence, humanity and particularly at the end of his life, courage. Tim concluded his address by saying "Dad was a figurehead, a mentor and a friend to many. There's that saying: the best portion of a good man's life are his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. We are immensely proud of him. We loved him deeply. In the words of Winnie the Pooh: how lucky are we to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." Anthony Cobbold March 2020. |
1: 1976 Timothy Rupert Rileyc W/C 2: 1978 William Ralph Rileyc W/C | |||||||
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