regarding whether or not Nigel was a founder of TVX or not ... (I am assuming you don't dispute he was a director).
if Sage Gold, Hawk Uranium, patricia mining, Ursa Major Minerals AND Infomine.com allow this "claim"/fact to be listed on their websites ... then I would probably stop splitting hairs and accept the fact that maybe he did.
again this took less than another 5 minutes.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/ownership/ownership.asp?symbol=HWKPF.PK
http://www.patriciamining.com/pages/information.htm
http://mineralfields.com/pdf/Ursa.pdf
http://www.infomine.com/index/companies/eResearch/FileDownload.asp?DocumentId=162