Background
Richard Heygate is the son of Sir John Heygate, a writer, and Gwyneth Lloyd, a Gaumont Company British film actress.
Richard Heygate is the son of Sir John Heygate, a writer, and Gwyneth Lloyd, a Gaumont Company British film actress.
He was educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford.
As a businessman, he is chiefly known for being part of the team which created the world"s first on-line air traffic management and for a long career as a McKinsey & Company partner. As a writer, he has co-authored two books about England published by John Murray. After leaving Oxford Richard Heygate joined International Business Machines Corporation in its Banking Division and led the team that created the first on-line air traffic management for Lloyds Bank.
After International Business Machines Corporation, he began a long career in Management Consultancy McKinsey in two separate periods, during the second of which he was elected a partner.
In the middle of this career, he resigned to run the family estates in Bellarena, Northern Ireland. He created a modern food factory and exported luxury products, such as smoked salmon, throughout the world.
A local newspaper in Portuguese-au-Prince dubbed him "Le Roi de Saumon Fume". Richard Heygate has published a number of articles in his company"s business journal, the McKinsey Quarterly.
Most recently, he has been involved in writing, television and radio, including
The Baronet and the Bounder (BBC2, air date 28 February 2006)
Endangered Species (Hardback 2007), (Paperback 2008)
The Book of English Magic (Hardback 2009), (Paperback 2010), (United States edition 2010).