John Duffield

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'''John Lincoln Duffield'''<ref>The Directory of Directors 2000, vol. 2, U.K. Companies and their directors, Thomas Skinner Directories, p. 572</ref><ref>[https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/jtVSESR6V2zgWUHa9ciXp9y-HHk/appointments John Lincoln DUFFIELD details]</ref> (born 1939) is a British financier. He founded Jupiter Fund Management, one of the largest fund managers operating in London.

==Career== The second son of physician and psychiatrist John Elwes Duffield (1910–2009) and his first wife, Jean Edwina (née Stellman),<ref>The Commonwealth Fund Fellows, 1925-1937, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, 1938, p. 51</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=DR JOHN DUFFIELD: Psychiatrist died after 99th birthday |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4136646.dr-john-duffield-psychiatrist-died-after-99th-birthday |accessdate=16 January 2020 |work=Oxford Mail |language=en}}</ref> Duffield was educated at Harrow School and then took a degree in biochemistry at the University of Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Duffield: the fading star once dubbed 'Croesus in a Mondeo'|url=https://moneyweek.com/31304/john-duffield-the-fading-star-once-dubbed-croesus-in-a-mondeo-14243|access-date=2021-12-11|website=MoneyWeek|language=en}}</ref> After this, he went into investment management and, having become manager of his wife's estates, moved to Switzerland as a tax exile.<ref name=standard>[https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/what-is-to-become-of-john-duffield-6927522.html What is to become of John Duffield?] Evening Standard, 2 December 2008</ref>

He founded Jupiter Asset Management in 1985.<ref name=tele>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/5158025/John-Duffield-rebounds-from-fall-of-New-Star.html John Duffield rebounds from fall of New Star], Telegraph.co.uk, 15 April 2009.</ref> After selling Jupiter Asset Management to Commerzbank, he founded New Star Asset Management in 2001.<ref name=tele/>

==Family== He was married to Vivien Clore but was divorced from her in 1976; they had one son and one daughter.<ref name=standard/> Duffield owns the Marcham Farms estate at Peasemore, Berkshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=The thirty landowners who own half a county |url=https://whoownsengland.org/2017/04/17/the-thirty-landowners-who-own-half-a-county/ |website=Who owns England?}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.john-duffield.co.uk/ John Duffield's official website]

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