The Aberdeen-based businessman and philanthropist Sir Ian Wood has died aged 84, his family has announced. Sir Ian was one of Scotland's wealthiest people, with a personal worth estimated at £1.8bn. Wood Group started as a family fishing business before Sir Ian took over in 1967. Over the next decades, he formed a separate engineering company servicing the rapidly-growing North Sea oil business. At its height, the Wood Group was valued at more than £5bn, carrying out work in the energy industry around the world.