Sir Benjamin Julian Alfred Slade, 7th Baronet (born 22 May 1946) is a businessman and self-publicist.

Life

Sir Benjamin Julian Alfred Slade is the son of Sir Michael Nial Slade, 6th Baronet, and Angela Clare Rosalind Chichester. Slade inherited his

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from his father in 1962, and is usually known as Sir Ben Slade. His older brother, Robert, predeceased their father. Sir Ben was educated at

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. He lives at

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. Slade has a daughter, Violet, with

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, but is still looking for a male heir who has genetic similarity to one of his further paternal ancestors, who will take an interest in running the estate and to whom he will leave it in trust. He was married (from the late 1970s to 1991) to Pauline Myburgh (daughter of

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) and divorced, claiming that her 17 cats were an impediment to the marriage.'Wanted: Baby-maker for eccentric toff, 70' - ''

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'' 19 April 2017 pg 24 He had a relationship with Fiona Aitken (currently wife of the

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) for a few years in the 1990s. His partner was Kirsten Hughes, star of ''

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'', until she "ran off with the handyman". In 2017 Slade separated from partner Bridget Convey because at the age of 50 she was too old to supply him with an heir. In the same year he advertised for a wife citing that she should have a shotgun licence, a driving licence, a coat of arms and be young enough to have sons. He rejected candidates from countries beginning with an 'I' or with green in the flag (except Italian and northern Indian women), Scots, lesbians and communists. Sir Benjamin has starred in ''The Guest Wing'', a

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about owners of

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s, which was shown on

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in April 2012. In 2019 Sir Benjamin was found by an employment tribunal to have unfairly dismissed and egregiously discriminated against two women who worked for him and who both became pregnant within a few months of each other. They were awarded compensation for unfair dismissal, lost earnings and discrimination totalling £179,500.

References

1946 births Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Living people People educated at Millfield {{UK-baronet-stub