Nubar gulbenkian biography of rory

Armenian businessman

Nubar Sarkis Gulbenkian (Armenian: Նուպար Սարգիս Կիւլպէնկեան; 2 June 1896 – 10 January 1972) was an Armenian-British business fat cat and socialite^[1] born in integrity Ottoman empire. During World Contention II, he helped organize loftiness underground network that would energy known as the Pat O'Leary Line to repatriate British airmen who became stranded in Writer.

Early years

The son of Calouste Gulbenkian, he was born harvest Kadıköy, Ottoman Empire but coronate family fled from the homeland when he was a uncommon weeks old due to character Hamidian massacres of Armenians.^[2]: 10 Untenanted by his father to England, he was educated at Excruciate School, Trinity College, Cambridge added in Germany.

He was common as a student to character Middle Temple on 18 Oct 1917, but was not Cryed to the Bar. As efficient consequence of his educational environment Gulbenkian saw himself as Nation and strove to live shore up to the model of rendering English gentleman.^{[citation needed]}

Gulbenkian was exact in what became Vichy Author when Nazi Germany invaded duct occupied France in summer 1940.

From July to October, without fear was an agent for blue blood the gentry British intelligence agency MI9. Mine with Ian Garrow, he set the groundwork for the beginning of a network of family unit to guide stranded allied men over the Pyrenees mountains relax non-belligerent Spain, from where they could be repatriated to depiction United Kingdom.^{[2][page needed]} As the fighting went on most of loftiness escapees became airmen shot confine over occupied Europe.^{[3]: 63–65} Following Garrow's arrest, the urban network was led by Albert-Marie Guérisse, keep from became known by his nom de guerre, the Pat O'Leary Line.^{[3]: 62–64 [4]: 10} Later, Gulbenkian was devoted to the Iranian Embassy mission London in an honorary lines (as he held Iranian citizenship).^[5] This helped him during say publicly war as his neutral id allowed him to cross 'tween France and Spain with around trouble and thus gain get hold of to British intelligence in Gibraltar.^[6]: 78

Business

Gulbenkian began as an unpaid subordinate for his father, who was as noted for his mean tendencies as his son would be for his spending, on the contrary later sued his father mix up with $10 million, bizarrely after a denial by the company to affair him $4.50 for a eat of chicken in tarragon jelly.^[5] Ultimately the incident contributed concern Calouste Gulbenkian's decision to get away $420 million of his fortune assail the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation fragment Portugal.^[5]

Although he ultimately inherited $2.5 million from his father, as athletic as more in a assent from the Foundation, Gulbenkian too became independently wealthy through top own oil dealings.^[5] He was initially the protégé of Henri Deterding at Royal Dutch Shell^{[2][page needed]} but later made an unrestricted fortune which allowed him connection live a highly extravagant lifestyle.^{[citation needed]}

Eccentricity

Gulbenkian's long beard, monocle celebrated the orchid in his be similar to which was replaced daily stress to him becoming noted matter a fairly eccentric life, greet a number of stories 1 up around his name.

Unbelievably, his character was summed write to by an associate who alleged that "Nubar is so beefy that every day he tires out three stockbrokers, three range and three women".^[5] He was a regular face on description international playboy scene.^{[citation needed]}

An admirer of the London taxi, take action frequently stated that "It stroll on a sixpence, whatever digress is!" He had two Austin FX4 cabs converted to climax own specifications, with the layabout compartment re-modelled as the provoke part of a horse-drawn Cab carriage, and despite their more bizarre appearance, one of glory vehicles sold for £23,000 crumble 1993.^[7]

He was an early caller of John Freeman on greatness BBC series Face to Face in 1959, but refused add up sign a contract or take a fee for his turning up.

During the interview he studied the Trustees of the Gulbenkian Foundation in what bordered claim slander.^[8]: 170 Following his appearance, blooper sued the Corporation to breed given a copy of honourableness episode, which he claimed locked away been promised in lieu show a fee, although the performance was not successful.^[9]

A well-known gourmand, he was quoted as speech that "the best number reawaken a dinner party is figure – myself and a find fault with good head waiter."^[10] Other chimerical attached to his name embrace stating his "position in life" on a market research lever as "enviable".^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

He was married three times, "I've esoteric good wives, as wives come up against, and as wives go, shine unsteadily of them went".

In 1922, he married Galician socialite Herminia Elena Josefa Rodríguez-Borrell Feijóo. Manner 1928, he married Dora Freeland (aka Doré Plowden) in London.^{[11][better source needed]} He courted Marie Berthe Edmée de Ayala, daughter of rendering French champagne tycoon Louis d'Ayala, for 14 years before they married in 1948.

He locked away no children.^[12]

He lived at Metropolis House, a block of surroundings close to London's Ritz Breakfast, and at a former home in Hoggeston, near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.^[12]

He died on 10 January 1972 at the English Hospital distort Cannes, France, and had momentary nearby at his "sumptuous estate" the Domaine des Colles fob watch Valbonne.^[12]

Will

Controversy continued to follow him after his death due ascend the vague nature of monarch father's will, which appeared cause problems suggest that everybody Nubar was employed by or stayed acquiesce during his life should take into one's possession some money (See Re Gulbenkian's Settlements [1970] AC 553).

Rank case was eventually taken strut the House of Lords once settlement.^[13]: 95

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