Stephen Philip Lansdown
CBE (born 30 August 1952) is an English-born
Guernsey
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It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...
billionaire. He co-founded the British financial services firm
Hargreaves Lansdown with
Peter Hargreaves. He is a founder of Bristol Sport and majority shareholder of
Bristol Bears
Bristol Bears (officially Bristol Rugby Club or Bristol Rugby) are a professional rugby union club based in Bristol, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby.
The club was founded as Bristol Football Club in 1 ...
,
Bristol Flyers
The Bristol Flyers are a British professional basketball team based in the city of Bristol, England. The Flyers compete in the British Basketball League, after promotion from the English Basketball League in 2014. The team play their home ga ...
, and
Bristol City Football Club
Bristol City Football Club is a professional football club based in Bristol, England, which compete in the , the second tier of English football. They have played their home games at Ashton Gate since moving from St John's Lane in 1904. The ...
.
According to The ''
Sunday Times Rich List
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'' in 2019, Lansdown is worth £1.72 billion.
Career
Educated at
Thornbury Grammar School in
Gloucestershire
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and trained as an
accountant
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Accountants who have demonstrated competency through their professional associations' certification exams are certified to use titles such as Chartered Accountant, Chartered Certifi ...
,
[Bristol's deadly duo hit the City]
timesonline.co.uk, 6 May 2007. Lansdown started
Hargreaves Lansdown trading from a bedroom in 1981.
In April 2009, he sold a stake of 4.7% in Hargreaves Lansdown for a sum of £47.2million, which he put towards the cost of building
Bristol City
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's new football stadium. He was reported in September 2012 to have announced his intention to quit Hargreaves Lansdown in November 2012.
Lansdown has a holiday home in the South of
France
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.
[
According to Hargeaves Lansdown's notifiable director deals, on 7 October 2010 he sold (at 429.00p) 13,560,843.00 shares at a value of £58,176,016.47. In 2013, he also bought basketball club ]Bristol Flyers
The Bristol Flyers are a British professional basketball team based in the city of Bristol, England. The Flyers compete in the British Basketball League, after promotion from the English Basketball League in 2014. The team play their home ga ...
. As of September 2015 his net worth was reported to be down to $1.88 billion.
Lansdown sold 2.2% of his shares in Hargreaves Lansdown in April 2020 at a total value of £160 million, which reduced his stake in the firm to 7%.
In August 2020 it was announced that Lansdown would receive £18.6 million in dividends after Hargreaves Lansdown's profits increased by 24% to £378.3 million in the 12 months leading up to 30 June 2020.
Honours
Lansdown was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
(CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours
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for services to business and the community in Bristol.
Family
He is married with two children.[
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References
English businesspeople
English football chairmen and investors
English rugby union chairmen and investors
1952 births
Living people
Guernsey billionaires
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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