Benzion Schalom Eliezer Freshwater
Benzion Schalom Eliezer Freshwater (born April 1948).
Early life
Benzion Shalom Eliezer Freshwater[1] is the son of Osias Freshwater (1897–1976), born in the village of Sassov, Galicia, Poland, who emigrated to England in 1939. His wife and three children died in the Holocaust. In 1947 he married Nechama Golda Stempel née Halberstam, widowed daughter of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, the second Bobover Rebbe, and they had two sons, Benzion and Solomon. Osias built up Daejan Holdings into one of London's largest private landlords and his sons, Benzion and Rabbi Shlomo are now Executive Directors.[2]
Career
As of 2008 he had 279 directorships[3] but operates mainly through Daejan Holdings plc, a company quoted on the London Stock Exchange, in which his family has a 79% stake.[4] Daejan's UK portfolio is managed by Highdorn, part of the Freshwater Group of Companies.
In the Sunday Times Rich List his fortune has risen from £1 billion in 2009 to £1.6 billion in 2016.[4][5] According to the 2020 edition his net worth was estimated at £2.054 billion.[6]
He is a trustee of Mayfair Charities Limited, a registered charity which disbursed £8,553,000 in 2007-8 to "organisations and institutions engaged in the provision of education and promotion of religious observance within the tenets of orthodox Judaism and for the relief of poverty."[7]
Affiliations
Charitable Trustee
- The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations Appointed Trustee 29 August 2013
- Regent Charities Limited
- Sassov Beis Hamedrash
- Service to the Aged
- The Raphael Freshwater Memorial Association
- Beth Jacob Grammar School for Girls Limited
- Mayfair Charities Limited
- Pardes House and Beis Yaacov Primary Schools Foundation
See also
- Top 100 philanthropists in the UK - The Sunday Times Giving List 2022
- Charitable spending of the largest 100 UK family foundations
- The Sunday Times Rich List 2022
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Charity Commission tells Jewish charity to appoint at least one 'fully independent' trustee. Thirdsector.co.uk
- ↑ [1] Template:Webarchive
- ↑ [2] Template:Webarchive
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rich List. Business.timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-16. Template:Subscription required
- ↑ The Sunday Times Rich List 2017.
- ↑ Rich List 2020: profiles 51-100, featuring Bernie Ecclestone.
- ↑ Template:EW charity
