Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth
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Ceawlin Thynn Viscount Weymouth |
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Ceawlin Henry Laszlo Thynn June 6, 1974 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Occupation | Businessman |
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| Spouse(s) | Emma McQuiston (m.2013) |
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Ceawlin Henry Laszlo Thynn, Viscount Weymouth (born 6 June 1974) is a British businessman and the second child of Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath and his wife, Anna Gael Gyarmathy. He is involved in a number of companies in the leisure, tourism, real estate and financial services sectors.
Ceawlin (pronounced /siˈɔːlɪn/) Thynn attended Horningsham Primary School and Kingdown Comprehensive School in Warminster, Bedales School in Hampshire, and read economics and philosophy at University College London.
In 1996, he was injured in a building collapse in Paharganj, New Delhi, which killed his fiancée, Jane Kirby, and his business partner, Crinan Wilde. The viscount blamed the resulting deafness when he was charged with disturbing his neighbours by playing loud music in 2010.
Ceawlin Thynn began his business career as an emerging markets specialist at the London investment bank Caspian Securities, before becoming a partner in Sabre Projects – a real estate development firm. At Sabre he put together a project with Group Menatep, the holding company of Russia’s then-largest oil company, Yukos, to develop an internationally branded mid-market hotel in every major city in Russia.
In 2008, he formed The Lion Trust, a private equity vehicle of which he is the principal. The Lion Trust invests in a range of mature and emerging markets.
Since June 2010, Ceawlin Thynn has been a director at Finmetron AB, a Swedish listed firm offering factoring services in Russia.
From 2010 until 2013, Ceawlin Thynn was Executive Chairman of Wombat's Holdings GmbH – a chain of hostels in Germany and Austria – having acquired a majority stake in the company. Wombat’s hostels were voted the best in the world by customers of Hostelworld in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2010, the Wombat’s City Hostel in Vienna won a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of ‘twelve years of unparalleled service’. The existing offering includes three units in Vienna comprising a total of nearly 1,000 beds, one unit in Berlin with 350 beds, one unit in Munich with 300 beds and one unit in Budapest with over 400 beds. The company is now preparing to expand into other major European cities, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Prague and Rome. The company was repurchased by their former owners in 2013, which left Ceawlin Thynn without any official role at wombat's.
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