Real-estate development pressure in Hingham is likely spurred by several factors: the town's close proximity to Boston ; its high-quality public education ; its relatively unspoiled historic character, and expanding availability of public transportation to Boston, by MBTA bus, commuter ferry near the Hingham Shipyard, and commuter rail.

Real-estate value has increased rapidly since the 1970s, and many large houses have been built around the lake.

# Real-estate developeent: There is rapid real estate development in the township.

Real-estate development replaced oil and agriculture as Southern California's principal industry.

He resigned from his post in August and was replaced by the Swiss magnate Jacques Necker.

She was the daughter of Vicomte Jacques J. de Sibour, a French nobleman and pilot, and his wife, Violette B. Selfridge ( later Mrs. Frederick T. Bedford ), daughter of British department-store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge.

Israel Harold " Izzy " Asper, ( August 11, 1932 – October 7, 2003 ), Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of the now defunct CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, as well as Executive Vice President David Asper.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

She was the daughter of citrus fruit magnate John A. Snively, who held extensive properties both in Winter Haven and in Waycross ; Parsons ' father was a famous World War II flying ace, decorated with the Air Medal, who was present at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of Stanisław August Poniatowski, a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress Catherine II of Russia, who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower.

" Bob " Smith, a prominent oilman and real estate magnate in Houston who was brought in for his financial resources ; and Judge Roy Hofheinz, a former Mayor of Houston and Harris County Judge who was recruited for his salesmanship and political style.

Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

In mid-1940 filming began on Citizen Kane, portraying the life of a press magnate ( played by Welles ) who starts out as an idealist but eventually turns into a corrupt, lonely old man.

* Aristotle Onassis, a prominent Greek shipping magnate who later married Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, the widow of assassinated U. S. President John F. Kennedy.

Nova Scotia was also the birthplace and home of Samuel Cunard, a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

In The Muppets, a version of the Muppet Theater is seen in Los Angeles and is the main plotline of the movie where the Muppets reunite to raise money to buy back the Muppet Theater deed from an oil magnate named Tex Richman ( who got the deed from Statler and Waldorf tricking them into believing that he will rebuild it as a museum ) as he plans to demolish it and drill for oil.

The park was built in six weeks in 1914 at a cost of about $ 250, 000 ($ 5. 3 million in 2011 dollars ) by the Chicago lunchroom magnate Charles Weeghman, who owned the Federal League Whales.

When its role was changed to include the national collection of Modern Art as well as the national collection of British art, in 1932, it was renamed the Tate Gallery after sugar magnate Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle, who had laid the foundations for the collection.

Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs.

The New York Times stated that according to two sources who had requested anonymity the buyer was casino magnate Stephen Wynn.

The team's first owner was coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin, who outbid grain magnate James E. Norris for the franchise.

It is said that " Kenton Kev " refers in fact to Kevin Jones, the US-based property magnate, who was actually born in Kenton.

Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet ( 21 November 1787 – 28 April 1865 ) was a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

Other residents over time have included: F. Wayne Valley, philanthropist, construction magnate, owner of the Oakland Raiders and founding member of the AFL ; Frank C. Havens, for whom Havens Elementary School is named ; and James Gamble, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who, in 1877, founded the Piedmont Land Company, thus introducing the name later adopted by the city upon its incorporation.

It was visited in 1876 by Henry Addison DeLand, a baking soda magnate from Fairport, New York, who envisioned here a citrus, agricultural and tourism center.

Incorporated in 1939, the town was named for insurance magnate Clement Stone, who bought most of the land when it was still cornfields.

Incorporated in 1939, the town was named for insurance magnate Clement Stone, who bought most of the land when it was still cornfields.

It was funded by mining magnate, A. C. Campbell, a former resident who had moved to Utah, and thus named Campbell University.

Urania was established in the late 1890s by lumbering magnate Henry E. Hardtner, who is considered " Louisiana's first conservationist.

Hitler's British guests were a mélange of aristocratic Germanophiles such as Lord Londonderry, professional pacifists such as George Lansbury and Lord Allen, retired politicians, ex-generals, fascists such as Admiral Barry Domvile and Sir Oswald Mosley, journalists such as Lord Lothian and G. Ward Price, academics such as the historian Philip Conwell-Evans, and various businessmen like the newspaper magnate Lord Rothermere and the merchant banker Lord Mount Temple.

Some villas were more like the country houses of England or Poland, the visible seat of power of a local magnate, such as the famous palace rediscovered at Fishbourne in Sussex.

Succession crises were frequent, especially up to the 4th century BC, when the magnate families of Upper Macedonia still cultivated the ambition of overthrowing the Argaead dynasty and to ascend to the throne.

This was especially true for major magnate families ( Sapieha and Radziwiłł clans being the most notable ), whose personal fortunes and properties often surpassed those of the royal families and were huge enough to be called a state within a state.

Among the 400 guests were many dignitaries and business leaders, including former US President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, Queen Noor of Jordan, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and his Greek-born wife Katherine, Galen Weston and Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Hilary Weston, U. S. television personality Kathie Lee Gifford, and media magnate Ted Rogers.

Among them were Cleveland ’ s Arthur B " Mickey " McBride ( a real estate and taxi magnate ), San Francisco ’ s Anthony Morabito ( lumber ), Chicago ’ s John L. Keeshin ( trucking ), and Los Angeles ’ group of racetrack owner Benjamin Lindheimer, actor Don Ameche and MGM's Louis B. Mayer.

The Hanford Carnegie Museum was built in 1905 as one of the many Carnegie libraries that were funded by the steel industry magnate, Andrew Carnegie.

The most prominent were William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt ; Frederick G. Bourne, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., and Christopher Robert II, an eccentric heir to a sugar fortune.

Sometimes freeholders or allodial owners were intimidated into dependency by the greater physical and legal force of a local magnate.

The co-founders of Roche were Richard de Busli, likely the great-nephew of the first Roger de Busli, the Norman magnate builder of Tickhill Castle, and Richard FitzTurgis.

In 1757 and 1758 most of the ruined manors were bought by the Pomeranian magnate family of Przebendowski.

The Framnes Mountains were named in the 1930s by Norwegian explorers financed by the shipowner and whaling magnate Lars Christensen.

The grand buildings were an outcome of the £ 50, 000 given by steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to establish a " first class modern scientific college " on the model of the Ivy League Cornell University in the United States.

Godred's dictatorial style appears to have made him very unpopular with the Islesmen, and the ensuing conflicts were the beginning of the end for Mann and the Isles as a coherent territory under the rule of a single magnate.

Steel magnate Fritz Krupp and shipowner Albert Balin of the Hamburg-America Line were invited to speak on the benefits of the bill to trade and industry.

The architects were John Carrere and Thomas Hastings, working for Henry Morrison Flagler, the industrialist, oil magnate and railroad pioneer.

They were owned by real estate magnate Myles Tanenbaum.

The company was run by Frank Rockefeller, the brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and among its clients were the railroads controlled by E. H. Harriman.

At the time, the Sunday Mirror and its sibling newspaper, the Daily Mirror were owned by media magnate Robert Maxwell who was alleged to have had contacts with Israel's intelligence services.

In order to prevent the rise of such a powerful magnate, the King divided up this strategically important territory – the only time in their active history that the Three Castles were owned separately.

The former almshouses in West Street are noted historic buildings of Kent ; they were founded in 1610 by John Southland, an important local magnate, and rebuilt in 1734.

In Sweden, wealthiest medieval lords were known as storman ( plural stormän ), " great men ", a similar description as magnate, and same meaning.

There were several other terms for " magnate " in Poland and Lithuania:

His parents were Robert Griffith Hayes, Jr. ( October 21, 1907-November 12, 1998 ) and Mariam Winslow Cannon ( January 22, 1916-August 4, 2007 ), daughter of textile magnate Charles Albert Cannon ( November 29, 1892-April 2, 1971 ) and his wife Ruth Louise Coltrane ( October 15, 1891-December 22, 1965 ).

Another interesting feature of the house is two stone lions on the verandah that were presented to President Kruger as a birthday gift on 10 October 1896 by the mining magnate Barney Barnato.