I have no idea whether Dame Anita Roddick and Derek Bonham ever met. It’s unlikely. This is almost certainly the first time the Body Shop founder, eco-goddess, business outsider and scourge of the City, and the former chairman of Imperial Tobacco and noted business insider, have been mentioned in the same article.

Alas, it will probably also be the last. But the morbid coincidence of their deaths at the same age, 64, and within days of each other prompts a reflection on what each brought to business from their opposite extremes of global capitalism.