Reigate Grammar School and Caterham College in Surrey, near where his father, Brendon, an executive at a subsidiary of Redland Tiles, and his mother still live.
[3] During the early 1990s he was involved in small-scale property development, founding and operating a small helicopter charter business.
It has been reported that Davis's first moneymaking business was selling jewellery and silver spoons door-to-door in the West Country.
According to the Good Food Guide's editor Desmond Balmer, Cliveden, the infamous backdrop to the 1960s Profumo Scandal, "has not shone as a hotel for the past five years."
[6] The holding company, Von Essen Hotels, went into administration in April 2011 after defaulting on debt interest repayments.