page_title: Mahdi Al Tajir
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Mahdi Al Tajir / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Keir House. Formerly the ancestral home of the Stirling family. It appears to me that it is virtually impossible to photograph it from within its grid-square.
context_page_description: Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir is a Bahraini-Emirati businessman based in the United Kingdom and the first United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United Kingdom and non resident ambassador to France. Al Tajir spends much of his time at his London home or at Keir House, his 18,000-acre Perthshire estate. He has interests in finance and property, and owns the Highland Spring bottled water company.
  Al Tajir was named one of Scotland's richest men with wealth of £1.72 billion in the Sunday Times Rich List 2010.
context_section_description: Mohammed Mahdi Al Tajir was born in December 1931in Bahrain, and educated at Preston Grammar School in Lancashire. Al Tajir is married with five children. Al Tajir's son, Maher al-Tajir, was found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend at Keir House in 2009.
  Al Tajir's 15,000 acre Blackwood estate in Perthshire, Scotland is owned by his company Park Tower Holding Establishment, based in the tax haven of Liechtenstein. Al Tajir also owns London's Sheraton Park Tower Hotel at 101 Knightsbridge near Hyde Park and Mereworth Castle in Kent, which he purchased in 1976 for $1.2 million.
  In the 1980s, he attempted to broker a peace deal in the Lebanese Civil War with his business partner Hani Salaam.
  Al Tajir has an extensive collection of silver artifacts and carpets. In 1993 Al Tajir paid the record price for a piece of silver at auction, when he bought a 1736 silver chandelier made by Balthasar Friedrich Behrens for £2.27 million at Christie's in Monaco. Al Tajir formed a joint venture with Bonhams fine art auction house to open an office in Dubai.
caption: Keir House
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