Loretta Robinson & family

✎ About Loretta Robinson & family

Birth Year: 1939

Birth Place: Toronto, Canada, Canada

Residence: Toronto, Canada

Spouse(s): Ted Rogers (deceased)

Children: Lisa Anne Rogers Edward Rogers III Melinda Mary Rogers Martha Loretta Rogers

Parent(s): Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere

Loretta Robinson & family

Loretta Robinson & family was born on 1939 in Toronto, Canada, Canada. Loretta Anne Robinson and her four children inherited a large stake in Rogers Communications, one of Canada's biggest and most diversified media companies, after her husband Ted Rogers died in 2008. Ted founded the company in 1960. It provides cable television, telephone, wireless and internet service to millions of users across Canada. It also owns Rogers Publishing, Canada's largest publisher, which produces 70 magazines including newsweekly Maclean's. Robinson and her family are also one of Canada's most generous philanthropists. In 2007 Loretta and Ted gave $15 million to what is now the Ted Rogers School of Business at Ryerson University in Toronto, where Loretta lives. Her son, Edward Rogers III, serves as Rogers Communications' deputy chairman while daughter Melinda sits on the board. In November 2014 the family donated $130 million to create the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research. It was the largest single donation in Canadian health care history.
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Biography/Timeline

1939

A baron's daughter; Rogers was born the Honorable Loretta Anne Robinson on 13 April 1939, the only daughter of Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere (1907-1989) and Lady Martonmere, (née Maysie Gasque) (died 1989). Her Father was a British Conservative Party Politician and Governor of Bermuda from 1964 to 1972.

1979

Rogers has served as a Non-Independent Director of Rogers Communications Inc. since December 1979, and is a Director of Rogers Media Inc., Rogers Telecommunications Inc., Rogers Cable Inc., and Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.

2005

With her late husband, Ted Rogers, she established the Loretta A. Rogers Chair in Eating Disorders at Toronto General & Western Hospital, part of the University Health Network, where she has served on the Foundation Board since 2005 and where, in 2009, the Ted Rogers and Family Chair in Heart Function was established, further complemented by the Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function in 2012,

2016

In February 2016, Forbes magazine estimated Rogers' net worth at US$5.5 billion.