Richard Branson Fast Track 100, sponsored by Virgin Group, at its yearly event, where places to join Richard Branson on trips to South Africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees. In 2009, Jason Luckhurst and Boyd Kershaw of Practicus, Martin Ainscough of the Ainscough Group and Matthew Riley of Daisy Communications helped raise £150,000 through the auction. In March 2008, Branson hosted an environmental gathering at his private island, Necker Island, in the Caribbean with several prominent entrepreneurs, celebrities, and world leaders. They discussed global warming-related problems facing the world, hoping that the meeting would be a
Richard Burn (Indologist) numismatist, producing papers on the subject that were published in the "Numismatic Chronicle" and the journals of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He was a founder member, in 1910, of the Numismatic Society of India. Richard Burn (Indologist) Sir Richard Burn, CSI (1 February 1871 – 26 July 1947), was a civil servant in British India, historian of India and numismatist. He was the editor of Volume IV of "The Cambridge History of India" and contributed four chapters to Volume VI of that work on the Indian political situation after 1900. Burn was born in