THE chairman of an international insurance company with an office in York has been confirmed as one of the people whose bodies have been brought to shore after the sinking of a luxury yacht in a tornado off the coast of Sicily.
Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy Bloomer were lost when the Bayesian was hit by a storm and sank at around 5am on Monday (August 19).
Mr Bloomer was chairman of insurance company Hiscox, which has a purpose-built office in Peasholme Green in York, and chairman of Morgan Stanley International and property business SDL, and was chief executive of global financial group Prudential between 2000 and 2005.
In a statement confirming their parents’ deaths, the Bloomer family described the couple as ‘incredible people and an inspiration to many’.
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