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Chris Rokos: the camera-shy billionaire behind the biggest UK university donation in modern times

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Chris Rokos: the camera-shy billionaire behind the biggest UK university donation in modern times

The 55-year-old is one of the most successful hedge fund managers of his generation

When Chris Rokos decided to donate a record £190m to the University of Cambridge to set up a “school of government” this week, it became the latest mega project carried out in the hedge fund billionaire’s name.

The publicity-shy tycoon has spent much of the last decade presiding over one of England’s most expensive home renovations ever, of the 200-room Tottenham House mansion near Marlborough in Wiltshire, adding a tennis pavilion and private cinema in the £175m revamp.

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Originally reported by The Guardian