īranson was educated at Scaitcliffe School, a prep school in Surrey, before briefly attending Cliff View House School in Sussex. Later, he stated that one of his great-great-great-grandmothers was an Indian named Ariya. On the show Finding Your Roots, Branson was shown to have 3.9% South Asian (Indian) DNA, likely through intermarriage. From 1793, four generations of his family were at Cuddalore Tamilnadu. His third great-grandfather, John Edward Branson, left England for India in 1793 John Edward's father, Harry Wilkins Branson, later joined him in Madras. His grandfather, Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor. He has two younger sisters, Lindy Branson and Vanessa Branson.
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In 1997, Branson founded the Virgin Rail Group to bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatisation of British Rail. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records-later known as Virgin Megastores-in 1972. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student.
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īranson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate.