Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student, but later discovered his ability to connect with others.

Henning later donated for the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area near Branson.

Adams later had a locomotive named after him by Virgin Trains boss Sir Richard Branson using the same " Black Prince " name, the first union secretary to have such an honour since former ASLEF secretary William P. Allen, General Secretary until 1947.

Maranta and fellow director John Ribot remained but Virgin Group founder Richard Branson took an initial stake in the club and later increased his holding to outright ownership after Maranta sold his interest in 1998.

Hosted by comedian, creative, and internet personality Ze Frank, the webcast included a series of conversations with Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, Gary Slutkin, and Anders Wilhelmson, ( and later Richard Branson and Mary Robinson ) with live performances by musicians Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Kate Havnevik, KT Tunstall, Josh Groban, Kaki King, Zoe Keating and Mark Isham.

It later moved to Route 76 west of Forsyth, and Route 76 was extended west via Branson, replacing part of Route 148 and much of Route 44.

A while later, the owner, Lord Cobham, in need of short-term capital, eventually settled for £ 180, 000 after Richard Branson had offered his final price of £ 175, 000 three months before the actual sale took place.

Her son, Robert Branson, would later testify that Beets had said that she intended to kill her husband and told her son to leave the house.

Branson has stated that he was formerly a global warming sceptic and was influenced in his decision by a breakfast meeting with Al Gore.

In the DVD commentary for the episode, Scully stated that Branson would have been a " great guest " in the episode.

In the late 1990s, Gabriel and entrepreneur Richard Branson discussed with Nelson Mandela their idea of a small, dedicated group of leaders, working objectively and without any vested personal interest to solve difficult global conflicts.

In the late 1990s, Branson and musician Peter Gabriel discussed with Nelson Mandela their idea of a small, dedicated group of leaders, working objectively and without any vested personal interest to solve difficult global conflicts.

By the end of April 2005, Sir Richard Branson had reportedly expressed an interest in buying the remaining assets of the company for the purpose of reviving the marque in order to enter the hybrid automobile market, and several other parties were also rumoured as wishing to buy the remnants.

In the intervening months between FLY I's declaration of bankruptcy and Independence Air's cessation of operations, a number of airlines expressed an interest in acquiring the airline's assets including: Mesa Air Group, United Airlines and Richard Branson.

In the United Kingdom the term " dirty tricks " became, for a while, synonymous with the British Airways campaign against rival Virgin Atlantic and the wider business interest of the airline's chairman Richard Branson.

The somewhat jazz-influenced album piqued the interest of Virgin Records executive Richard Branson enough to release it in the United Kingdom the following year under the name B the Magpie.

The London Broncos made their only Challenge Cup final appearance so far at the old Wembley Stadium in May 1999, Branson relinquished his interest in 2001 and the London Broncos brand was ' retired ' in September 2005, becoming Harlequins Rugby League under the ownership of Ian Lenagan.

On 25 September 2004, Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One — funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan — to take paying passengers into suborbital space.

One novel titled Mary Barker published by Branson and Farrar in 1865 is described as “ A thrilling narrative of early life in North Carolina .” It is listed in the catalog of the Library of Congress, call no.

One copy is in the collection of rare books in the New York Public Library and is very rarely made accessible ; another can be seen in the Bible Museum in Branson, Missouri, USA.

Some memorable features include " highest joystick " where readers would send in a picture of their gaming apparatus of choice at a high location, such as Ben Nevis or the cockpit of a jet ( next to the altimeter ), a feature where readers could send in a picture of themselves with a celebrity ( One such picture had a topless Richard Branson with two young brothers ), and " Smack In The Marf ", in which readers could send in ( obviously faked ) pictures of themselves with their injuries.

In an interview in Time magazine, 10 August 2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship.

* Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin America Airways, claimed that he joined the mile high club at age 19 ( c. 1969 ) in a plane's lavatory.

The matter was never brought before a court and Branson agreed to repay any unpaid tax and a fine.

* In the second series of Downton Abbey, Lady Sybil Crawley and the chauffeur Tom Branson set off for Gretna Green with plans to elope, before being caught by her sisters.

Sir Richard Branson, who heads the Virgin Group, intends to run the first flights out of New Mexico before extending operations around the globe.

He was co-skipper with Richard Branson on Virgin Atlantic Challenger I and Virgin Atlantic Challenger II in 1985 and 1986 respectively, before founding the Challenge Business to organise the 1992 / 1993 British Steel Challenge in 1989.

He rose to Head of A & R under Richard Branson and set up his own independent label ( Offside Records-named after his favourite cricket shot ) before being hired by Chris Wright of Chrysalis.

Route 13 forms a concurrency with Route 86 before bridging Table Rock Lake south of the town of Branson West.

In December 2011, just a few days before Christmas, Branson's daughter Holly married long term boyfriend Freddie Andrewes on the island " at exactly the same spot " where Branson had married years earlier.

* 1950 – Richard Branson, English businessman, founded Virgin Group

In 2007, he worked with Philippe Starck and Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group for the Virgin Galactic plans.

In the film clip of ' Generals and Majors ' ( directed by Russell Mulcahy ), Virgin Records founder and chair Richard Branson has a cameo role as one of the ' majors '.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson ( born 18 July 1950 ) is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.

In 1971, Branson was questioned in connection with the selling of records in Virgin stores that had been declared export stock.

Earning enough money from his record store, Branson in 1972 launched the record label Virgin Records with Nik Powell and bought a country estate, in which he installed a recording studio.

In 1992, to keep his airline company afloat, Branson sold the Virgin label to EMI for £ 500 million.

Branson says that he wept when the sale was completed since the record business had been the birth of the Virgin Empire.

Branson formed Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984, launched Virgin Mobile in 1999, Virgin Blue in Australia ( now named Virgin Australia ) in 2000.

Branson has also developed a Virgin Cola brand and even a Virgin Vodka brand, which has not been a very successful enterprise.

Branson has been tagged as a " transformational leader " in the management lexicon, with his maverick strategies and his stress on the Virgin Group as an organisation driven on informality and information, one that is bottom-heavy rather than strangled by top-level management.

On 21 September 2006, Branson pledged to invest the profits of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains in research for environmentally friendly fuels.

On 4 July 2006, Branson sold his Virgin Mobile company to UK cable TV, broadband, and telephone company NTL / NTL: Telewest for almost £ 1 billion.

Branson used to own three quarters of Virgin Mobile, whereas now he owns 15 percent of the new Virgin Media company.

In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

Branson also launched the Virgin Health Bank on 1 February 2007, offering parents-to-be the opportunity to store their baby's umbilical cord blood stem cells in private and public stem cell banks.