Loretta Rogers

Loretta Rogers
Born	Loretta Anne Robinson (1939-04-13)April 13, 1939 London, England, UK
Died
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Miami (BFA)
Occupation	Director of Rogers Communications
Net worth	US$5.8 billion (March 2015)
Spouse(s)	Ted Rogers (m. 1963; d. 2008)
Children	4, including Edward Rogers III
Parents	Roland Robinson (father) Maysie Gasque (mother)

Loretta Anne Rogers (née Robinson; April 13, 1939 – June 11, 2022) was a English-born Canadian philanthropist and business executive who served as a director of Rogers Communications. She was the wife of Ted Rogers, who was the company's founding president and CEO.

Personal life and family

Rogers was born on April 13, 1939, in London, England. She was the younger child and only daughter of Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere, and 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 made Gasque an heiress to the Woolworth fortune.

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

Rogers held a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami. She had received two honorary doctorates, from the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University.

Rogers died on June 11, 2022, at the age of 83.

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. In 2016, Forbes magazine estimated Rogers' net worth at US$5.5 billion.

Rogers' only son, Edward Rogers III, serves as the chairman of Rogers Communications. He is also the chair of 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 also serves as the vice-chair of the Rogers Control Trust.

Philanthropy

With her late 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 has served on the foundation board since 2005 and where the Ted Rogers and Family Chair in Heart Function was established in 2009. This was complemented by the Ted Rogers Centre of Excellence in Heart Function in 2012.