Jeremy Gordon Norman (born 18 May 1947) is a British entrepreneur, whose ventures have included Burke's Peerage, Mayfair's Embassy nightclub, the gay 'ultradisco' Heaven, the clubs Embargo and Leopard Lounge on Fulham Broadway, the Power Station gym in Chelsea, in partnership with Richard Branson, and Soho Gyms.
[2] A half-brother, Robert Norman (1922–1942), his father's son by a previous marriage, had been killed in action during the Second World War while serving in the Royal Navy.
[1] The same year, he became Chairman of Burke's Peerage, a publisher of genealogical reference works, of which his old school friend Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd was editor at the time.
[6] He continued in this role until 1983, his fellow directors including Patrick, Lord Lichfield, and John Brooke-Little, Richmond Herald of Arms.
He also owns two property investment companies, Blakenhall & Co. Ltd. and Citychance Ltd. Norman originated two other successful clubs: Embargo (1990–94),[9] and Leopard Lounge on Fulham Broadway (1989–92).
"[8] Norman has also written books about his adventures with Derek Frost aboard a private yacht, from their perspective as "Two Men in a Boat".
This struck Norman as a romantic notion, and he and Frost set out to test the theory, which led them on a journey, chasing the arrival of spring up the west coast of Great Britain.
[10] The follow-up, Two Men in a Boat: Illyrian Shores, is a "story of a romantic voyage in the wake of the Venetians... from Cofu to Venice."