Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja preferred to keep a low profile, but there was one place they were always recognised. On their morning walks around the lakes in St James’s Park, the brothers would be surrounded by gaggles of pigeons and squirrels, expectantly waiting for the breadcrumbs and peanuts which they would produce from a plastic bag.
Feeding wildlife is technically against the rules in the Royal Parks, but Srichand felt he owed a debt of gratitude. “I learnt about investment from squirrels,” he once said. “If you give them two nuts, they will bury one — they won’t eat both of them.”
