Richard Branson Joan also had a daughter named Clare Sarah, who died when she was four days old in 1979. They were married in 1989 on Necker Island. In 1998, Branson released his autobiography, titled "Losing My Virginity", an international best-seller. Branson was deeply saddened by the disappearance of fellow adventurer Steve Fossett in September 2007; the following month he wrote an article for "Time" magazine, titled "My Friend, Steve Fossett". In 2013, Branson became President of the Old Stoic Society of Stowe School. In March 2015, Branson said that almost all drug use should be decriminalised in the UK, following the
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