Richard Assheton Dermot Dinan

Richard Assheton Dermot Dinan is a British businessman, author, lecturer, and former television personality. He is the founder of aerospace company Pulsar Fusion, has written the book The Fusion Age: Modern Nuclear Fusion Reactors, and starred in the reality television series Made in Chelsea. Early life Dinan is the son of Barry and Lady Charlotte-Anne Curzon and the grandson of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. He initially attended St. Edward’s School in Oxford. Dinan dropped out of school when he was 16 and began working at the London-based gunmaker and clothing retailer Holland & Holland. Career Shortly after working at Holland & Holland, Dinan founded the magazine Ammunition at age 16. Dinan founded Applied Fusion Systems with physicist James Lambert in 2011 to develop nuclear reactors. The company’s first project was a spherical tokamak based on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak. Dinan debuted as a cast member on the reality television program Made in Chelsea on its third series, which aired in 2012. He returned to the show in its fifth series, which aired in 2013. He returned for a third time on the program’s tenth series, which aired in 2015.