LOCAL millionaires have appeared alongside pop stars, business tycoons and regal families in this year's Sunday Times Rich List.
The glossy guide to the richest people in Britain and Ireland has put former Freshney Place owner, The Duke of Westminster at the top of the list for this area.
The 61-year-old's fortune rocketed by £250 million after Grosvenor Group, the property giant controlled by Westminster, sold off a clutch of regional shopping centres – which we can today reveal includes the Grimsby centre.
He is ranked eighth on the list with a total fortune of £7.8-billion.
Coming in at 122nd place, with £710 million, Grimsby born Carphone Warehouse boss David Ross has climbed 31 places from last year and is up £170 million from his £540 million fortune in 2012.
Ross bought out the workwear division of his grandfather's company, Cosalt after the firm collapsed with debts of £17 million in February.
Down 25 places at 126, is food processing boss Ranjit Singh Boporan, 46, whose company bought Grimsby's Five Star Fish in 2010.
His £700 million fortune is down £50 million, £600 million of which is tied up in the 2 Sisters food group. He also owns the Harry Ramsden's fish and chip shop chain and Amber Real Estate Investments.
Lincolnshire's Michael Cornish and Family Packaging are at 173 for their £500 million fortune, an increase of £3 million from last year.
Cornish, 59 – son of the late Evan Cornish, who founded Louth packaging giant LinPac – made £700 million by selling the firm to Montagu Private Equity in 2003.
He now owns a 50 per cent share of Oak Ridge Hotels, owner of Louth's Brackenborough Hotel and the Ashbourne, at North Killingholme.
The Earl of Yarborough is lowest on the list of rich locals at 919, with a haul of £84 million.
He runs the 28,000 acre Brocklesby Estate and property companies.
The 49-year-old's father, who died in 1991, left £67 million in his will.
See tomorrow's Grimsby Telegraph for full story on the sale of Freshney Place.
