Mark Brown Vestey

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Mark Brown (1965) is a national environmentalist and philanthropist, educated at Radley School.

Grandson of Derek Vestey whose family made its fortune from the wholesale meat industry and the Dewhurst butcher chain, lives off the proceeds of a pounds 2.7milliopn trust fund. He has been accused of using his riches to to finance his political activism, including part of the Carnival against Capitalism in 1999 [1].

He has been involved in Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Corporate Watch Reclaim the Streets, Rising Tide UK and the European Peoples' Global Action. He is one of the owners of the London Action Resource Centre.

See Guardian article: Heirs and disgraces "With Dewhurst the butchers they became Britain's richest business dynasty - and the country's most astute tax avoiders. Now they are worth a mere £650m and while one member of the family enjoys a day at the polo with Prince William, another is being linked to the protest against capitalism in the City of London. Stuart Millar and Alex Brummer trace the bizarre fortunes of the house of Vestey"

[edit] Sources

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/04/65617.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,278717,00.html

Conservation's Conservative streak, 21 October 2005 http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CADD8.htm

Heir cleared of organising city demo, Friday, 14 April, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/713664.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/07/05/do0502.xml

The New Face of Philanthropy By Britt Collins http://www.satyamag.com/apr03/collins.html

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