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-Robert Maguire Ugland (1872-1957) was a British brewer and industrialist who founded the Tortuga factory in the British West Indies and who, having made his forture, devoted the autumn years of his life to corporate philanthropy. Setting up his first shelter — a safe house for lost and wayward corporate fictions, in Bermuda in 1923, and later established a colossal facility for unwanted limited liability corporations, general partnerships and Delaware subsidiaries in the [[Cayman Islands]].
+{{a|cayman|[[File:Ugland House.jpg|450px|thumb|center|The building which stands today in memory of [[George Robert Maguire Ugland]]]]}}
+A grand, ocean-fronted five-story Spanish hacienda, [[Ugland House]], houses tens of thousands of homeless, cold, starving  [[orphan ownership|orphan]] [[special purpose vehicles]]. It was named after the founding father of Caribbean [[high finance]], [[George Robert Maguire Ugland]], who set up the first orphanage for parentless [[espievie]]s in the [[Cayman Islands]] in the 1950s.
-:''“Give me your poor, huddled, lost little [[special purpose vehicle]]s of the world. Give them to me. I will feed them. I will shelter them, just as they will shelter you, and your taxable income.”
+Ugland’s protogés the [[Maple brothers]], together with their long-time collaborator, dour Glaswegian botanist [[A. J. N. Calder]], built [[Ugland House]] into a magnificent charitable alms house. The building has supplied the world’s asset management sweatshops with a never-ending stream of disciplined, well-schooled orphan [[espievie]]s for over forty years now.
+In G. R. M. Ugland’s own immortal words:
+{{quote|''{{ugland quote}}''}}
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