Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate

The Right Honourable The Viscount Stansgate

Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Society of Biology
Personal details
Born	Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn (1951-08-21) 21 August 1951
Children	Emily, born 4 October 1989 Daniel, born 1991
Alma mater	Keele University

Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate (born 21 August 1951) is Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Society of Biology.^[1]

His father, Tony Benn, and younger brother, Hilary Benn, have both been senior Labour politicians. His mother was Caroline Benn and his sister is Melissa Benn, a feminist writer. He is a graduate of Keele University. He was an elected Member of the Inner London Education Authority from 1986 to 1990.

He has a daughter, Emily, born in 1989, and a son, Hon. Daniel John Wedgwood Benn, born in 1991. Emily, an investment banker by occupation, is pursuing a political career, and sits on the Croydon London Borough Council as a Labour member.

In 2011, he was appointed director of parliamentary affairs for the Society of Biology after spending two decades in a similar role for the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Benn succeeded to the title of Viscount Stansgate on the death of his father in March 2014.

References

Father's obituary

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British viscounts*

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Haberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Disclaimed Title last held by Tony Benn	Viscount Stansgate 2014–present	Incumbent Heir: Daniel Benn (b. 1991)

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