Darius Guppy
| Darius Guppy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 London, England |
| Residence | Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle Eton College Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Notable work | Roll the Dice |
| Partner(s) | Patricia Guppy |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) |
Shusha Guppy Nicholas Guppy |
Darius Guppy (born 1964) is a British–Iranian businessman, noted for his colourful ancestry, high-society contacts and unconventional opinions. When his father was ruined in the 1990s crisis at Lloyd's of London, Guppy sought revenge by successfully claiming from Lloyd's after a faked jewel robbery. Betrayed by an accomplice, he was eventually jailed.
Guppy now lives with his family in South Africa and has expressed contempt for modern Britain and western governments in general as well as an intense dislike of the British media. Writing for a variety of publications he has emerged as a fierce critic of globalisation and international banking.
Guppy's mother was the Iranian author and singer Shusha Guppy (1935–2008). His grandfather on his mother's side was the philosopher and theologian Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammed Kazem Assar, who held the chair of philosophy at Tehran University; his maternal cousin, another Assar grandson, is Hooman Majd.
His father was Nicholas Guppy, the writer and explorer who died May 2012 in Bali. On his father's side he is a descendant of Lechmere Guppy, the naturalist who discovered the eponymous fish, as well as the inventor Sarah Guppy, Thomas Guppy, the engineer and business partner of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the explorer Amelia Guppy, Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt (founder of the Hellfire Club) and the medieval Plantagenet family.
Guppy was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Eton College, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in history and French. In his second year, he became a member of the Piers Gaveston Society, as well as the Bullingdon Club. He was the best man at Earl Spencer's wedding to model Victoria Lockwood, his first wife; Lord Spencer was his best man in return. He was a close friend and boxing nemesis of Boris Johnson, who later became the Mayor of London, as well as of Count Gottfried von Bismarck.
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