Stephen Lansdown


Stephen Philip Lansdown CBE is an English-born Guernsey 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 Flyers, and Bristol City Football Club.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Lansdown is worth £1.72 billion.

Career

Educated at Thornbury Grammar School in Gloucestershire and trained as an accountant, Stephen 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'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.
According to Hargeaves Landsdown's notifiable director deals, on 7-10-2010 Stephen P Lansdown, Non-Executive Director, sold 13,560,843.00 shares at a value of £58,176,016.47. In 2013, he also bought basketball club Bristol Flyers. As of September 2015 his net worth was reported to be down to $1.88 billion.

Honours

Lansdown was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to business and the community in Bristol.

Family

He is married with two children.