Phoenix Venture Holdings cases twice - since then. For accounting purposes, Phoenix Venture Holdings also includes various non-trading subsidiary companies that exist in name only. These businesses include: See MG Rover Phoenix Venture Holdings Phoenix Venture Holdings (PVH), also known as the Phoenix Consortium, was a British company formed by four businessmen (John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards). Following BMW's break-up of the Rover Group a financially complex deal involving a £500 million "dowry payment" from BMW, resulted in PVH purchasing the Rover marque in May 2000 for the notional sum of £10, relaunching the car company as MG Rover.
John Stephenson (zoologist) John Stephenson (zoologist) Prof John Stephenson CIE FRS FRSE FRCS (6 February 1871, Padiham, Lancashire - 2 February 1933, London) was a surgeon and zoologist. He was a leading expert on the earthworms of the Indian subcontinent. After education at Burnley Grammar School, Stephenson matriculated at Owen's College, Manchester and graduated there B.Sc. (Lond.) in 1890 and M.B., B.Chir. (Manc.) in 1893. Stephenson was a house physician from 1893 to 1894 at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and then in 1894 at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London. He joined the Indian Medical Service as a lieutenant on