Another example of a successful conglomerate is Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, a holding company which used surplus capital from its insurance subsidiaries to invest in a variety of manufacturing and service businesses.

It is also well known for being one of the very early investments purchased by Warren Buffett ( via Blue Chip Stamps ) for his Berkshire Hathaway Corporation ( in 1972 ), beginning the path of that company from a textile concern to being one of the world's most successful conglomerates.

He later became tutor to Sir William Trumbull's son at Easthampstead Park in Berkshire and is now best known as the assistant of his neighbour, Alexander Pope, in his translation of the Odyssey, of which he ' Englished ' the first, fourth, nineteenth, and twentieth books, catching the manner of his master so completely that it is hardly possible to distinguish between their work ; while thus engaged he published ( 1723 ) a successful tragedy, Marianne.

Graham's most famous student, however, is Warren Buffett, who ran successful investing partnerships before closing them in 1969 to focus on running Berkshire Hathaway.

This growth translates into a 30-year annual return of 78 %, making Sudha Murthy one of the most successful institutional investment managers in the world – surpassing Warren Buffett's 36-year Berkshire Hathaway annual return of 22 %, Peter Lynch's 13-year Magellan Fund annual return of 29 %, and George Soros's 32-year Quantum Fund annual return of 30 %.

A very successful professional dominatrix and madam, she once owned a yellow Rolls Royce and had her own yacht which she kept at Bray in Berkshire.

The old bridge was the site of a skirmish during the English Civil War in 1643 and was left with a wooden drawbridge structure on the Berkshire half.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

During the Battle of Britain he used to spend weekends with Warburg and his new friend Zionist Tosco Fyvel at Twyford, Berkshire.

Category: People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire

Disagreements, persecution and increasing social turmoil, however, led Fox to suffer from a severe depression, which left him deeply troubled at Reading, Berkshire, for ten weeks in 1658 or 1659.

* Melville Room at the Berkshire Athenaeum

She was the wife of Anskill of Seacourt, at Wytham in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ).

Koenigsegg CCR at Broughtons, Berkshire, UK

In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.

The film was shot at Bray Studios and Oakley Court, a country house in Berkshire, England, from October 21, 1974, to December 19, 1974.

Between 1261 and 1300, there are at least eight references to ' Rabunhod ' in various regions across England, from Berkshire in the south to York in the north.

During the first two months the group worked on demos at South Hill Park Recording Studios in Bracknell, Berkshire with producer / studio owner Michael Sparkes and song writer / arranger Tim Hawes.

The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from Wiltshire along the chalk ridge of the Berkshire Downs to the River Thames at the Goring Gap, part of the Icknield Way which ran, not always on the ridge, from Salisbury Plain to East Anglia.

* December 31 – The Danes are defeated by a Saxon army at Englefield, Berkshire.

He was born at Abingdon in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), 7 miles south of Oxford, England, circa 1175.

Herschel was born in Slough, Berkshire, and studied shortly at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge.

In 1700, his family moved to a small estate at Popeswood in Binfield, Berkshire, close to the royal Windsor Forest.

His most notable victory came in 851 at " Acleah ", possibly Ockley in Surrey or Oakley in Berkshire.

Railway bridge at Maidenhead, Berkshire | Maidenhead

The death of Eadwine, Ealdorman of Sussex, is recorded in 982, because he was buried at Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire, where one version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was compiled.

In 779, Cynewulf was defeated by Offa of Mercia at the Battle of Bensington, and Offa then retook Berkshire, and perhaps also London.

This stems from the probably mistaken belief that the Battle of Ethandun took place at Eddington in Berkshire rather than Edington in Wiltshire or Edington in Somerset.

* Æthelwulf of Berkshire ( before 825 – 871 ), Saxon Ealdorman who won 31 December 870 Battle of Englefield, but lost his life at 4 January 871 Battle of Reading ; received land grant in 843 / 44 from Brihtwulf, king of Mercia

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that the first known Ealdorman of Berkshire, Aethelwulf, fought the Danes with Ethelred of Wessex at the nearby Battle of Englefield in 871.

The Second Battle of Newbury was a battle of the English Civil War fought on 27 October, 1644, in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire.

The constituency comprises the western part of the Borough of Reading ( specifically the wards of Battle, Kentwood, Minster, Norcot, Southcote, Tilehurst and Whitley ) together with the parishes of Holybrook, Pangbourne, Purley-on-Thames, Tidmarsh with Sulham, Theale and Tilehurst in West Berkshire District.

The PUC was awarded to the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment for its actions at the Battle of Imjin River in 1951, with the tradition continued by its successor, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, until its amalgamation into The Rifles.

In 1993, the Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust was formed, to manage both the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Battle Hospital, the town's other general hospital.

This was to celebrate the completion of an eight year project to move the Battle Hospital services onto the Royal Berkshire Hospital site.

In August of the same year, the Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust became an NHS Foundation Trust under the name of Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, reflecting both its new status and the closure of Battle Hospital.

The loss of the Queen's Colour and Regimental Colour of the 66th ( Berkshire ) Regiment at the Battle of Maiwand, following so soon upon the loss of the Colours of the 1st / 24th ( 2nd Warwickshire ) Regiment at the Battle of Isandlwana ( 22 January 1879 ) during the Anglo-Zulu War, resulted in Colours no longer being taken on active service.

When Ali references the Berkshire Massiv of Englefield Green, this is actually in Surrey.

Davies retired to Englefield House in Berkshire, but was then appointed lord chief justice of one of the superior courts in England.

Category: People from Englefield, Berkshire

The village of Egham was previously an ancient parish covering land totalling in the counties of Berkshire and Surrey ; incorporating Egham, Egham Hill, Coopers Hill, Englefield Green, Virginia Water, Shrubs Hill, Runnymede, Egham Hythe, and a considerable portion of Windsor Great Park.

He was born, probably in Englefield in Berkshire, around 1455, the son of John Englefield whose family had been Lords of the Manor there for many generations.

Category: People from Englefield, Berkshire

* Englefield, Berkshire, a village in that county in England.

The character of Lady Jane Coningsby in the children's mystery novels, the Lady Grace Mysteries, is probably based on Jane, the daughter of Humphrey Coningsby ( 1516-1559 ) of Hampton Court in Herefordshire and his wife, Anne, sister of Sir Francis Englefield of Englefield House in Berkshire ; and eventual wife of William Boughton ( 1543-1596 ) of Little Lawford at Newbold-on-Avon in Warwickshire.

The parish shares boundaries with the Berkshire parishes of Purley-on-Thames, Tidmarsh with Sulham, Theale, Englefield, Bradfield and Basildon.

Category: People from Englefield, Berkshire

Born probably about 1520, he was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Englefield of Englefield, Berkshire, justice of the common pleas.

Category: People from Englefield, Berkshire

The larger part is owned by the Englefield Estate and the remainder by West Berkshire Council.

Englefield is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

* Royal Berkshire History: Englefield

* Royal Berkshire History: Englefield House

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