David Rowland (property developer)

David Rowland was born in 1945 to the family of a scrap metal dealer. == Business activities ==

Rowland established Fordham Investment Group in 1965. and then via their insurance company. One case was settled (though no financial settlement was deemed necessary), while Gulf lost another. In 2009, Kaupthing Bank Luxembourg, affected by the global liquidity squeeze, was divided into two new entities, a 'good, healthy' bank, later renamed Banque Havilland, and a 'bad' bank. David Rowland and his son Jonathan, via their investment company Blackfish Capital, acquired and recapitalized the former and now manage the assets, on behalf of the interbank creditors, of the latter. ==Football issues==

In 1988, Rowland helped fund a lawyer, David Duff, in a failed takeover of Edinburgh Hibernian, parent company of Scottish Premier Division football club Hibernian. Eventually the company went into receivership. In 2013, Rowland-owned Fordham Sports Management Ltd. acquired Manchester City's top players' image rights. == Conservative Party ==

In the year before the 2010 United Kingdom general election, Rowland donated £2.8m to the Conservative Party, making him the party's major donor. Electoral law in the United Kingdom prohibits foreign donations to political parties. In August 2010, Rowland made another donation of £1 million to the Conservative Party. In May 2017, he gave £200,000 to the Conservative Party. ==Personal life==

Rowland moved from London to Paris at the age of 24, then Monte Carlo, Monaco, and finally Guernsey, where he has lived since at least 2005. He lives at Havilland Hall, the largest privately owned estate on the island, where in 2005, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Rowland smoking a cigar in a "vaguely Churchillian pose". He has eight children. == References ==