him as a Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Philanthropy Benyon is a patron of the charity, Berkshire Vision, a charity dedicated to supported the visually impaired in the county. Personal life According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Benyon is worth £130 million. He controls the Englefield Estate, a 14,000 acre estate of mainly rural land and property in West Berkshire and Hampshire between Reading, Newbury and Basingstoke. It is the largest private landowner in West Berkshire. The family seat is Englefield House, a large Grade II* Listed building owned by the Benyon family for many generations. He also owns the Glenmazeran Estate in Inverness, Scotland. According to The Register of Members' Financial Interests, as at 21 January 2019, he was paid £15,000 per annum by the UK Water Partnership, a not-for-profit company set up to promote the interests of the UK water sector; and employed his sister, Catherine Haig, as a part-time researcher while an MP. He received donations amounting to £8,250 in 2018, from Philip Lavallin Wroughton (three payments amounting to £7,000) and from Chris Gent (a single payment of £1,250). In December 2017, Benyon was banned from driving for six months after admitting to using a mobile phone while driving. He had previously spoken out against mobile phone-using drivers after four people were killed by a distracted driver in an accident in his constituency. Benyon is one of nine Vice-Presidents of Berkshire County Scout Council. Ancestry Notes References External links Richard Benyon MP Conservative Party profile 1960 births Living people Royal Green Jackets officers UK MPs 2005–2010 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom People educated at Bradfield College People from Englefield, Berkshire People from Reading, Berkshire Alumni of the Royal Agricultural University UK MPs 2010–2015 UK MPs 2015–2017 Councillors in Berkshire 21st-century British landowners Benyon family Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom UK MPs 2017–2019 Life peers created by Elizabeth II