scion

The former shipping scion took over the reins from the last British Governor Chris Patten in July 1997 when the UK handed Hong Kong back to China, ending more than 150 years of British control.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Tech scion David Ellison wants to add HBO, CNN, HGTV, Food Network and the Warner Bros. studio to his smaller stable of Paramount properties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“There is a huge crisis of Anglo Jewry,” says Mr. Montefiore, 61, a scion of Anglo-Jewish aristocracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

During that time, Wood went from scion of his family business to its patriarch, and expanded the company into a beloved convenience and gas-station giant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

And if he, good Christian, scion of a striving class, patron saint of the twice as good, could be forever bound, who then could not?

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Call them “fail-sons,” incompetent scions who, no matter how hard they try, will never be as accomplished as their rich or powerful parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

The first venture capitalists were wealthy individuals like Brown and Englishman Matthew Boulton—who subsidized James Watt’s steam engine in Great Britain—and scions of wealthy dynasties like the Rockefellers in the U.S.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

The scions of two Philippine political dynasties, Duterte and Marcos had initially competed for the presidency in the lead-up to the 2022 elections.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

These weren’t the heirs and scions of industry; these were working-class Americans.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown