Those who built a house that outlived them. A company, a brand, a system of hotels that still operates under the name its founder gave it. The test is survival: the house is still there, and it is still theirs.
This is the group of first instances. Its members did not enter an existing category and improve it; they produced a category that had no name until they built it, and which others then reproduced until it looked inevitable.
The test is reproduction, not scale or fame. César Ritz standardised what a grand hotel does at the moment there was no standard. Adrian Zecha replaced the resort with the small pavilion property. Dave Varty and Luke Bailes turned the safari camp into a hospitality product. Georges Nagelmackers put a hotel on rails. Each answered a question nobody had yet framed, and each answer became a template.
Because the group is defined by invention rather than by ownership, it is the most heterogeneous in the Part. It holds hoteliers and railway financiers, a chef, a tyre manufacturer's two sons, casino developers and conservationists. What they share is priority in time and consequence in practice.
What the group does not settle: priority is easier to assert than to prove, and invention is rarely solitary. Where a category has several plausible originators, the entry states the competing claim rather than resolving it by preference.