2) Damon Buffini – $190 Million (£125m)

A successful business man and a noteworthy philanthropist, Damon Buffini is a must on this list. In 2013, He donated £1.71 million to the Buffini Chao Foundation, his charitable vehicle. With the charity’s spending amounting to barely £100,000 (of which the Royal Shakespeare Company got £50,000), the gift led to a surge in assets at the charity to more than £5 million. The Cambridge-educated Buffini, born to an African American serviceman and a British woman has a £56 million stake in SVG Capital.