Rich, slightly eccentric and faultlessly classy multi-billionaires are something of a cliché in science fiction films and novels. They tend to be the ones with some sort of quest for immortality and who like to fund large ventures into space. Often they become bad guys in Bond films, but even so, it’s a shame characters like these are confined to the pages of sci-fi books…

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A knight of the realm to the rescue.