My Merry Christmas - Sam Kelt

This year's newsmakers reveal what lights their fire at Christmas.

Kelt Capital's Sam Kelt is a merchant banker.

What's your earliest Christmas memory?

Going to church on Christmas Day and being so excited at the prospect of meeting Father Christmas - and he just wasn't there! It took some real getting over for a little fella. I was 4.

What does Christmas mean to you?

It's a time of giving to children and making their lives a whole lot happier.

Do you have a Christmas tradition?

Christmas crackers at family Christmas dinners.

Best Christmas present ever?

When I was six I was given a Muscovy duckling which I named "Dabble". She remained a very special friend for over a decade.