The Honourable

Loretta Rogers
Born
Loretta Anne Robinson

(1939-04-13)April 13, 1939
London, England, UK
DiedJune 11, 2022(2022-06-11) (aged 83)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Miami (BFA)
OccupationDirector of Rogers Communications
Spouse
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(m. 1963; died 2008)​
Children4, including Edward Rogers III
Parents

Loretta Anne Rogers (née Robinson; April 13, 1939 – June 11, 2022) was an English-born Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist who was a director of Rogers Communications. She was the wife of Ted Rogers, the company's founding president and CEO. In 2015, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$5.5 billion.[1]

Personal life and family

Rogers was born on April 13, 1939, in London, England.[2] She was the younger child and only daughter of Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere, and wife Maysie Gasque (died 1989). Her father was a British Conservative Party politician who was granted the hereditary title of Baron Martonmere in 1964. He served as Governor of Bermuda from 1964 to 1972. Her mother, Maysie Gasque, was an American with ties to F. W. Woolworth Company through her uncle-in-law Hubert T. Parson, who served as Woolworth's president; thus making Gasque an heiress to the Woolworth fortune.[3]

She married Ted Rogers on September 25, 1963.[4] Together, they had four children: Lisa, Edward, Melinda and Martha.[4]

Rogers held a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami.[2] She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Western Ontario, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto.[5]

Rogers died at her home in Toronto on June 11, 2022, at the age of 83.[6][7]

Rogers Communications

Rogers had served as a non-independent director of Rogers Communications Inc. since December 1979. She was also a director of Rogers Media Inc., Rogers Telecommunications Inc., Rogers Cable Inc., and Rogers Wireless Communications Inc.[8]

Rogers' only son, Edward Rogers III, is the chairman of Rogers Communications and the Rogers Control Trust, which controls the majority of the voting shares of Rogers Communications.

Her daughter Melinda Rogers-Hixson founded Rogers Venture Partners, the technology investment arm headquartered in San Francisco. She is the vice-chair of the Rogers Control Trust.[1][9]

Philanthropy

With her 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 served on the foundation board from 2005, and where the Ted Rogers and Family Chair in Heart Function was established in 2009.[10] This was complemented by the Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function in 2012.

References

  1. 1 2 "Loretta Robinson". Forbes. March 2, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Caroline Van Hasselt (March 17, 2010). High Wire Act: Ted Rogers and the Empire that Debt Built. John Wiley & Sons. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-470-73974-7. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Posadzki, Alexandra (June 11, 2022). "Loretta Rogers, co-founder and director of Rogers, was a bridge between family members". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Edward Samuel 'Ted' Rogers". Maclean's. December 2, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Loretta Rogers - Honorary Degree Ceremony". Office of the President. June 7, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  6. ↑ Loretta Rogers passes away at 83
  7. ↑ "Loretta Rogers, family matriarch and longtime telecom director, dead at 83". CBC News. Canadian Press. June 11, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Loretta Anne Rogers", Bloomberg L.P. (Id=766532&privcapId=378755), accessed November 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Pullen, Kellt "The Man Who Would Be King: inside the ruthless battle for control of the $34-billion Rogers empire"; Toronto Life; October 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Loretta Anne Rogers". tgwhf.ca. Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
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