Tiny Rowland

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In 1948 Tiny Rowland moved to Rhodesia where he bought a tobacco farm at Eiffel Flats in Mashonaland West province. As enemy aliens his parents were interned on the Isle of Man where his mother died. On the outbreak of World War II he was conscripted into the British Army where he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps.

He gained fame from a number of high-profile takeover bids in particular his bid to take control of Harrods.