Robert Holmes à Court

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937, Johannesburg, South Africa - 2 September 1990, Perth, Western Australia) was an entrepreneur who became Australia's first businessman worth over a billion dollars before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990. Holmes à Court was one of the world's most feared corporate raiders through the 1980s, having built his empire single-handedly from virtually nothing to a diversified resources and media group with an estimated worth prior to the 1987 stockmarket crash of about $2 billion. Shareholders in the company that became his flagship, 'Bell Resources', enjoyed enormous investment growth.