Ben Summerskill

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Summerskill
Occupation	Businessman
Date Of Birth	Oct 6, 1961(1961-10-06)
Age	63
Birthplace	Kent
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Ben Summerskill Biography

Ben Summerskill is one of the most popular and richest Businessman who was born on October 6, 1961 in Kent, England, United Kingdom.

His first career was in the restaurant trade. He was Operations Director from 1987 to 1990 with Kennedy Brookes, by then a publicly quoted hospitality company, responsible for 300 staff and an £18m turnover at the age of 26. Becoming a journalist in 1990, he rose to the position of Assistant Editor of The Observer newspaper which he joined in 2000 after having worked with Peter Hitchens and Peter Oborne as Media Editor for Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott, and the London Evening Standard under editor and mentor Max Hastings and other magazines.

Summerskill was a Labour councillor for the Westbourne Ward of Westminster City Council from 1994 to 1998. His paternal grandmother (Baroness) Edith Summerskill and his aunt (Dr) Shirley Summerskill were both Labour Members of Parliament and government ministers. Dr Edith Summerskill, a former Chairman of the UK Labour Party, was an early advocate of Britain’s free National Health Service and a vocal campaigner for women’s equality. Shirley Summerskill helped introduce the UK’s Sex Discrimination Act, as a Home Office minister. His maternal grandfather Sydney Elliott was a newspaper editor of various papers, including the London Evening Standard. In 1944 Elliott became Editorial Advisor at the Daily Mirror, where he masterminded its campaign to support the Labour Party at the 1945 general election.

Ben Summerskill Net Worth

Ben Summerskill is one of the richest Businessman from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Summerskill 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill OBE (born 6 October 1961 in Kent) is Chair of The Silver Line and Director of the Criminal Justice Alliance, a consortium of 135 charities working across the GB criminal justice pathway. He was the Chief Executive of the UK-based lesbian, gay and bisexual equality organisation Stonewall, the largest gay equality body in Europe, from 2003 to 2014. He has a twin sister, Clare, who is a performer. He has also worked as a businessman and journalist. Ben Summerskill is an occasional contributor to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times, Time Out and other publications. In 2015 he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British LGBT Awards In 2017, he was appointed by the UK government to the Council (Board) of ACAS, the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was first appointed a trustee of the Silver Line in 2017.

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Following a backlash that saw a number of calls for Summerskill’s resignation, Stonewall confirmed it would support equal marriage in October 2010.

Facts & Trivia

Bobby Ranked on the list of most popular Businessman. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ben Summerskill celebrates birthday on October 6 of every year.

In 2010 he was a finalist as Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2011 he was shortlisted as Britain’s Most Admired Charity Chief Executive in the Third Sector Awards.