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Jim Swire
English father of 1988 Lockerbie bombing victim
Herbert Swire (born 1936), known better as Jim Swire, is an English doctor best known for his involvement in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which his daughter Flora was killed. Swire lobbied toward a solution for the difficulties in bringing suspects in the original bombing to trial, and later advocated the retrial and release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the originally convicted suspect in the case.
In 1990, Swire carried a fake bomb – a near-exact replica of the one that killed his daughter – onto two different aircraft, one in the UK and a connecting one in the US, as a demonstration of lax security in both countries.
Lockerbie bombing
Main article: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial
On 20 December 1988, Swire's 23-year-old daughter Flora, who wanted to fly to the United States to spend Christmas with her American boyfriend, had little difficulty in booking a seat on the next day's transatlantic Pan Am Flight 103, with only 243 of 366 seats sold. Flora died when it exploded over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing at least 270 people, including 11 on the ground. Investigations were soon launched in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Eventually, two Libyans, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, were accused.
Swire became a spokesman for UK Families Flight 103, a group of family members of those who had died in the air crash.
Swire planted a memorial woodland for his daughter, known as Flora's Wood, near their home in Gloucestershire.
Fake bomb
On 18 May 1990, Swire took a fake bomb on board a British Airways flight from London's Heathrow airport to New York's JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved; his fake bomb consisted of a radio cassette player and the confectionery marzipan, Sir Adrian, 77, and Sir John Swire, 82, are honorary president and life president respectively of John Swire & Sons, the Hong Kong group involved in finance, property and shipping. The business has a controlling stake in Swire Pacific, which owns shares in the Cathay Pacific airline and manufacturing operations. We value the family stake in John Swire at £1.2 billion, dividends totalling £100m. ------------- The Swire Group (SEHK: 0019,SEHK: 0087,OTCBB: SWRAY) is a transnational corporation headquartered in London, England. It controls a range of wholly owned businesses, including deep-sea shipping, cold storage, road transport, and agricultural activities. The current chairman is James Hughes-Hallett. Taikoo (太古) is the Chinese name of Swire. It serves as the brand name for businesses such as Taikoo Cube Sugar and Taikoo Shing. History The Swire Group's privately owned parent company is John Swire & Sons Limited. The Swire Group, started by John Swire (1793-1847), had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company started in the early years of the 19th century. In 1861, John Swire & Sons Limited began to trade with China through agents Augustine Heard & Co. In 1866, in partnership with R.S. Butterfield, Butterfield & Swire was established in Shanghai. Four years later, a Hong Kong branch of Butterfield & Swire was also opened.[citation needed] Four years after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Butterfield & Swire closed all of its China offices. In 1974, Butterfield & Swire in Hong Kong was renamed John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Ltd.[citation needed] The Group's businesses The Swire Group's core businesses in Hong Kong are held by the publicly quoted Swire Pacific Limited. The Group's core businesses are grouped into 2002 Sir Adrian Swire re-appointed Chairman Following the untimely death of Edward Scott CMG, Sir Adrian Swire resumed his role as Chairman of the Swire group until 2005. Swire Properties signed a joint venture agreement to develop and manage a four million square-foot complex in Guangzhou. Opened in 2011, TaiKoo Hui includes a retail centre, two office towers, a cultural centre, a five-star hotel and serviced apartments. 2005 James Hughes-Hallett becomes Chairman James Hughes-Hallett (1949- ) becomes Chairman of the Swire group. 2006 A strategic partnership In 2006, a shareholding realignment increased Air China and CNAC’s aggregate shareholding in Cathay Pacific Airways, while Cathay Pacific increased its shareholding in Air China. The move cemented the strategic partnership between the key players in China’s aviation sector, while strengthening Cathay Pacific’s position as Hong Kong’s home carrier. 2008 New property ventures Swire Hotels was formed to create and manage intriguing urban hotels in the HKSAR, the Chinese mainland and the USA. In Beijing, Swire Properties began the phased opening of Taikoo Li Sanlitun, a retail-led, mixed-use development with a luxury hotel, and acquired a 50% interest in another mixed-use development, later named INDIGO. The China Navigation Company commenced an unprecedented new building programme to replace its entire fleet over four years. In total, 12 multipurpose vessels, 28 handysize bulk carriers and one cement carrier were ordered by the company for delivery between 2013 and 2016. All but four of the ships were constructed at Chinese mainland shipyards. 2011 Importing cars to Hong Kong Swire launched International Automobiles, the exclusive importer in Hong Kong and Macau for Abarth, Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Jeep passenger cars, as well as Volvo, UD and Renault Trucks. 2012 Swire Properties lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Swire P British businessman (1825–1898) John Samuel Swire Liverpool, England London, England John Samuel Swire (24 December 1825 – 1 December 1898) was a British businessman. He grew his family business, the Swire Group, and expanded the cotton and sugar trade with China. He established the Taikoo Sugar Refinery in Hong Kong and The China Navigation Company on the Yangtze river. He was the instigator and founding chairman of the China and Japan Conference (later known as the Far Eastern Freight Conference). This shipping cartel existed from 1879 to 2008 and was a major component of the shipping industry from the Far East to Europe. John Samuel Swire was born on 24 December 1825 in Liverpool, England. His father, John Swire, was the founder of the Swire Group. His mother was Maria Louisa Roose. He had a younger brother, William Hudson Swire, born in 1830. They inherited the family business when their father died in 1847, when Swire was twenty-two years old. Later in his twenties, he went travelling in the United States and Australia. Swire established Swire Bros in Melbourne, Australia in 1855. In 1865, he negotiated with Alfred Holt to expand the cotton trade with China by using Holt's Blue Funnel Line. He entered in a partnership with Richard Shackleton Butterfield, a textile manufacturer from York, and established Butterfield and Swire in Shanghai in 1867, followed by additional offices in England and the United States. A year
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