Agora is currently owned by RIT Capital Partners and Lord Rothschild's family interests, along with management.

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Other recipients of doctorates were Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, The Rt Hon Lord Rothschild, GBE, Dr Arno Penzias, and Professor Shirley Tilghman.

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He arrived in America by a circuitous route that took in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Tring, a small town in southern England where Lord Rothschild, a rich naturalist, had established a private museum.

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They did so under the auspices of the Butrint Foundation, set up in 1993 by two British grandees: Lord Rothschild, a banker whose villa on the shores of Corfu looks across to Butrint, and Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, a supermarket magnate.

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