Kenneth Roy Thomson (* 1 September 1923 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is the 2. Baron Thomson OF fleet as well as businessman and art collecting tank.

He is son of Roy Herbert Thomson, 1. Baron Thomson OF fleet (1894-1976), the founder of The Thomson corporation, a former Presseimperium, which was converted into an enormous offerer from electronic information and services. Kenneth Thomson was from 1976 to 2002 leaders of Thomson corporation and is this very day the largest shareholder with a portion of 69%.

According to Forbes of magazines the family Thomson is the richest in Canada; Kenneth Thomson is considered as a ninth-richest person of the world with an estimated fortune of approximately 19.6 billion dollar (2006).

Thomson speaks rarely in the public and if, then over its large passion, the art. It belongs to the largest art lovers our time. 2002 he gave to the kind Gallery OF Ontario of works of art in the value of over 300 million dollar. Under the 2000 given works of art was the most expensive painting of an old master, which was ever ersteigert: "Day of the innocent children" of Peter Paul Rubens, who Thomson at an auction of Sotheby's acquired 2002 for million.

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