"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 12/2/05 18:17, in article ,
"Franz
Heymann" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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Having lived in Jersey where a lot of rich and famous
people live,

I have never heardof any famous people living in Jersey, except
perhaps for some specimens who might be famous for being famous.

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Franz

Why should you have, unless you make a study of such things? I
happen to
know about it because I lived there and was born there. It wasn't
stuff that
I sought, it just happened to me.

So - Alan Whicker (TV journalist), Derek Warwick, (racing driver),
Billy
Butlin (deceased), Jack Higgins (author of e.g. The Eagle has
Landed), the
Dockers (deceased), John Nettles (while shooting Bergerac), Gilbert
O'Sullivan (singer), Ian Woosnam (golfer) Tony Jacklin at one time,
Gerald
Durrell (zoologist), Sir Giles Guthrie (one time chairman of BOAC,
whose
widow is there still).

None of them are famous in my book. As a matter of fact many of them
I have never heard of.
All of them, without exception, will be forgotten within a few decades
of their death.
On the other hane, Rabelais, Galileo, Shakespeare, Einstein and the
like never lived on Jersey.

And that doesn't touch the merely rich and/or titled, whose names
you might
or might not know like the founder of one of the successful cut-rate
airlines, some immensely rich property developers, or the now en
desastre
(bankrupt) but soon to be discharged owner of ML Laboratories.
The Channel Islands are tax havens, Franz.

I am aware of that. Ecsaping ones tax obligations is, in my book, a
reason for infamy, not fame.

They attract a lot of people who
you will never have heard of and some you have. Many would *prefer*
that
you have never heard of them. The Barclay Brothers own the lease on
Brecqhou
and have built the world's most expensive and fortified
semi-detached
quasi-castle there - do a bit of Googling on them!
Ian Botham and John Arlott lived in Alderney but I don't know if
Botham is
still there. He very kindly did a walk for the Jersey branch of the
Leukaemia Research Fund when I was its chairman. I think that one
day took
5 years off my life but it raised a lot of money. The Channel
Islands are
both peculiar and particular. ;-)

Sacha, I know there are many people who live on Jersey in order to
avoid paying taxes or to be seen living amongst others of the same
kind. That is not what I call fame. I judge whether persons are
famous or not by the quality of the durable ideas they have produced.
All else are but baubles.
{:-((

Franz