Perry bass biography
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Perry Richardson Bass
American billionaire, philanthropist and patriarch to the Bass Brothers of Fort Worth
Perry Richardson Bass (November 11, 1914 – June 1, 2006) was an American heir, investor, philanthropist and sailor.
Early life
[edit]Perry Richardson Bass was born on November 11, 1914, in Wichita Falls, Texas to oil operator Dr. E. Perry Bass[1] and Anne Richardson Bass.[2][3][4] He was educated at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.[2] He graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in 1937.[2][3]
Career
[edit]He worked for his uncle, Sid W. Richardson, a rancher and oil wildcatter, in the 1940s and 1950s.[5] Upon his uncle's death, he inherited his oil and ranching interests, worth several million dollars.[2]
Philanthropy
[edit]As a result of good investments, Bass was worth US$1 billion by 2005 and was
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Elwood Lake (Buck) Perry – Widely acclaimed as the “father of structure fishing” – his theories changed the way very serious angler approached the underwater world.
His theories on structure fishing were based on his direct observations of fish behavior. As a lifelong fisherman, he repeatedly observed that fish travel both in schools and along predictable paths between deep and shallow water. These paths are determined by the bottom structure of the lake.
Buck Perry opened up our lakes and rivers to a different style of fishing than anyone before him had ever enjoyed. He was the first to talk about how weather affects the fish, specifically the “cold front”.
In 1946 he invented the Spoonplug lure in his North Carolina garage and the lure has remained on the market for more than five decades. Spoonplugs are lures (tools) specifically designed to find productive structure, locate fish, and make them strike.
Even before the days of sonar, Perry was using his Spoonplugs and trolling
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Ed Bass
American financier and philanthropist
For the first American Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts, see Edward Bass.
Edward Perry "Ed" Bass (born September 10, 1945)[2] is an American businessman, financier, philanthropist and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He financed the Biosphere 2 project, an artificial closed ecological struktur, which was built between 1987 and 1991. He is the chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth,[3] and chairman of the board of directors of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a philanthropic organization.[4] He was listed as #239 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2012, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.[5]
Early life and education
[edit]Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas to Perry R. (1914–2006)[6] and Nancy Lee (née Muse) Bass (1917-2013),[6][7] the second-oldest of fou