Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
William Branson (physician) the University of London. The brother of The Right Hon. Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson PC (the grandfather of Sir Richard Branson), William Branson died at Bury St Edmunds on 5 March 1950. "Medical Morbid Anatomy and Pathology", 1909, "Songs and Sober Pieces", 1938. William Branson (physician) William Philip Sutcliffe Branson CBE FRCP (1874-1950) was a senior British physician and author. Born on 17 September 1874 in Calcutta, India, William Branson was educated at Bedford School, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was Consultant Physician at the Royal Free Hospital and at