Wensley Haydon-Baillie

A company he invested in, Porton International, sold at high prices when it seemed it had a cure for herpes.

It collapsed when it turned out it did not and the company wound up selling at a discounted price to Ipsen Pharmaceutical.

[citation needed] He owned a collection of Rolls-Royces and an aviation museum housing and restoring many Spitfires.

[1] He also owned Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire[2] – one of the largest private homes in Europe with an assumed 365 rooms.

In the 1980s, he invested millions in a firm that claimed to have a cure for herpes[3] but it never materialised and in 1998 he admitted to debts of £13m.