Sir Henry Keswick - who lives in Oare near Marlborough - makes it in at number 22 on the Sunday Times Rich List.
His £6.471bn net worth increased by £2.471bn last year, moving him up the rankings from number 33.
Keswick owned The Spectator, a British conservative magazine, from 1975 to 1980. He is the chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd, which he joined in 1961. He has been a director since 1967 and became managing director in 1970, and chairman in 1972.
He and his wife donated £100,000 to the Conservative Party in the 2017 General Election.
According to the Register of Members' Financial Interests, in January 2020, Keswick donated £2,000 to Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. He also donated £10,000 to Devizes MP Danny Kruger.
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