Ben Goldsmith
| Ben Goldsmith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Benjamin James Goldsmith 28 October 1980 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Eton College |
| Occupation | Financier and environmentalist |
| Known for | Finance |
| Spouse(s) | Kate Rothschild (m. 2003–2012) Jemima Jones (m. 2014) |
| Children | 4 |
Benjamin James "Ben" Goldsmith (born 28 October 1980) is an English financier and environmentalist. The son of financier James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith he is one of the managers of the sustainability-focused investment firm WHEB Group. He has used his personal wealth to support both philanthropic and political projects in the area of the environment and sustainability.
He had a high-profile marriage to Rothschild heiress Kate Emma Rothschild which ended in 2012. The split gained tabloid headlines in the UK after being dubbed the first "Twitter Divorce" for playing out on social media via posts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram."
Goldsmith was born in London and is the youngest child of the late billionaire James Goldsmith, a member of the prominent Goldsmith family and his third wife Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. He has an older sister, Jemima Khan, and an older brother, Zac Goldsmith, and several half-siblings, His brother Zac has had a strong influence on him, and his brother has a passion for the environment inherited from their father, who secretly gave money to green causes, including to campaigns against genetically modified food. His uncle Teddy Goldsmith was a co-founder of the Green Party UK and also of The Ecologist.
On 20 September 2003, at St Mary's Church in Bury St Edmunds, he married heiress Kate Emma Rothschild (b. 1982), the daughter of the late Amschel Rothschild and his wife, Anita Patience Guinness, of the Guinness Brewery family. Their wedding was attended by 600 guests, with many blue-blooded and Old Etonian friends, among them Lord Frederick Windsor and Alexander Spencer Churchill.
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