The owners and founders of several well-known contractors, including Ray O’Rourke and James Wates, have found a place in the Sunday Times Rich List 2019.
The annual wealth guide ranks the 1,000 richest people in the UK, along with details about the industry sector in which they made their fortune.
The highest entry among those representing the construction industry was Lord Bamford, owner of construction equipment firm JCB, in 33rd position with an estimated fortune of £4.15bn.
He was followed by John Bloor, owner of Bloor Homes and Triumph motorcycles in 78th place, who was one of many housebuilders and developers to feature.
However, there were also several contractors, including Laing O’Rourke chairman and chief executive Ray O’Rourke and family who was 338th= in the list with an estimated fortune of £337m.
Sitting just below O’Rourke was Wates Group chairman James Wates in 431st= with an estimated fortune of £300m.
The full list of construction industry figures to feature in the Sunday Times Rich List 2019 is:
- 33 Lord Bamford and family (£4.15bn)
- 78 John Bloor (£1.9bn)
- 156= Steve Morgan (£950m)
- 158 Yelena Baturina (£945m)
- 213= Clinton, Spencer and John McCarthy (£650m)
- 225 David Wilson and family (£615m)
- 230= Michael Shanly (£600m)
- 242= John Kirkland and family (£585m)
- 265 Charles Gallagher and family (£506m)
- 308= Kevin Lagan and family (£440m)
- 314= Kathy, Bernard and John Murphy and family (£426m)
- 314= Terry Bramall and family (£425m)
- 387 Stephen Conway and family (£338m)
- 388= Ray O’Rourke and family (£337m)
- 390= Tony Pidgley (£335m)
- 431= James Wates and family (£300m)
- 431= Mark Watkin Jones and family (£300m)
- 443 James and Selina Hopkins (£293m)
- 475= The Shepherd family (£262m)
- 478= Tony Brotherton-Ratcliffe and Diana Jones and family (£260m)
- 478= Bill Robertson and family (£260m)
- 490= Paul and Johnny Caddick and family (£250m)
- 490= Andrew Hill and family (£250m)
- 507= Dai and Richard Walters (£240m)
- 520= David Mabey and family (£231m)
- 564= Eoin McCann and family (£212m)
- 569= Martin Ainscough and family (£210m)
- 602= Peter Gadsby (£202m)
- 602= The McAlpine family (£202m)
- 606= Tom O’Brien and family (£200m)
- 637= Robert Jelley and family (£192m)
- 652= Sir Martin Laing and family (£187m)
- 656 George and Daphne Burnett (£186m)
- 666 John Carey and family (£181m)
- 667= Irving Weaver (£180m)
- 684= Robert Carter and family (£175m)
- 692= Fred Story and family (£174m)
- 703= Cormac and Patrick Byrne (£170m)
- 712= Stephen and Paul Harrison (£167m)
- 712= Bruce Mickel and family (£167m)
- 712= Stephen and Paul Harrison (£167m)
- 719= David and Lucy Wernick and family (£165m)
- 731= Crohan O’Shea and family (£160m)
- 768= Michael Graham and family (£154m)
- 775= Brendan Kerr and family (£149m)
- 821= Duncan Davidson and family (£149m)
- 830= Michael Conway and family (£146m)
- 835= Brendan O’Malley and family (£145m)
- 867= Raj Manak (£137m)
- 871= Edelin Davis and family (£136m)
- 900= Michael O’Hara and family (£130m)
- 900= Paul Rowley (£130m)
- 927= Duncan Fletcher and family (£127m)
- 945= Brian Morrisroe (£125m)
- 945= Mark and Tom Wakeford and family (£125m)
- 959= Noel and Mary Sweeney (£124m)
- 978= Michael and Mona Masterson and family (£120m)
- 978= Jim Milne and family (£120m)
