Parents Tony Benn, Caroline Benn | Name Stephen 3rd Children Emily Benn, Daniel Benn | |
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Full Name Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn Born 21 August 1951 (age 73) ( 1951-08-21 ) Siblings Hilary Benn, Melissa Benn, Joshua Benn Grandparents William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate, Margaret Wedgwood Benn, James DeCamp, Anne DeCamp Similar People | ||
Stephen Michael Wedgwood Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate (born 21 August 1951) is Director of Parliamentary Affairs for the Royal Society of Biology.
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, pursued a political career, and sat on the Croydon London Borough Council as a Labour member until she resigned in 2016.
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.