Brer Ruthven, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra
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Patrick Leo Brer Ruthven, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra and Dirleton (born 1964) is the son of the 2nd Earl of Gowrie and heir apparent to the earldom.
Brer attended Westminster School. He wrote a number of articles for the NME and formed a rock band, the Pleasure Splinters, with Nick LeQuesne and Alan White. In 1982 he started work for Mike Lesser as Company Secretary of Pancan, a robotic theatre lighting system invented by Peter Wynne-Wilson. Moving to New York in 1985 Brer worked for Elizabeth Nickson at New Republic Clothiers. A month before the Black Monday (1987), Brer started work for Charlotte Black at London & Frankfurt Portfolio Management, moving with Charlotte and her client base to Brewin Dolphin the following year. Under Nigel Triptree, Brer moved from administration to investment management, running a variety of pension funds, private portfolios and a unit trust.
He married an artist, Julie Goldsmith, mother of Tom Conning (aka Verb T), in 1990. He had one son, Heathcote Patrick Cornelius Hore Ruthven the same year. The family moved to Portobello Road in 1992.
In 1994 Brer started a direct marketing company, MusicLink, with Ali Irvani and the following year his own IT consultancy, gBase Ltd, with Max Thomas and David Rage. Brer worked on two award winning CD-ROMs for the Trocadero (London) and BT Group. In 1999 Brer returned to Brewin Dolphin to design a new front office investment management system with Mondas plc which he stayed on to administer.
After separating from his wife, he moved to South Africa where he worked as a network manager and freelance journalist for Condé Nast Publications. Brer moved back to London in 2007.
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