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Robin Birley is a British businessman and entrepreneur. He is the son of the late Mark Birley, founder of the exclusive private members' clubs Annabel's and Harry's Bar. He is the founder of the Birley Group, which owns and operates a number of private members' clubs, restaurants, and bars in London. Birley was born in Westminster, London, on 19 February 1958. He was educated at Eton College and the University of Edinburgh. Birley began his career in the hospitality industry in the early 1980s, working for his father's business, Mark Birley Ltd. He was appointed managing director of the company in 1985, and in 1989 he founded the Birley Group. The Birley Group owns and operates a number of private members' clubs, restaurants, and bars in London, including Annabel's, Harry's Bar, and the Arts Club. Birley is also the founder of the 5 Hertford Street private members' club. Birley is a keen polo player and is a member of the Guards Polo Club. He is also a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Birley is married to the former model and actress, Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. They have two children.

Popular As Robin Marcus Birley
Occupation Businessman
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 19 February 1958
Birthday 19 February
Birthplace Westminster, London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Robin Birley's Wife?

His wife is Lucy Ferry (m. October 2006-23 July 2018)

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Parents Mark Birley (father)Lady Annabel Goldsmith (mother)
Wife Lucy Ferry (m. October 2006-23 July 2018)
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Children Maud Birley

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Source of Income Businessman

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2019

Oswald’s, a club for wealthy oenophiles in a townhouse on Albemarle Street, is due to open in February 2018. In November 2017, Avenue reported that Birley is close to finalising a deal to start work on a new club, akin to 5HS but with bedrooms for members, near Union Square, Manhattan.

In May 2019 the club faced claims from backroom staff who had protested against “poverty pay" demanding the real living wage pay rate and an occupational sick pay.

Birley’s first entrepreneurial success came with the foundation of Birley Sandwiches in the early 1980s. Over the following 30 years, he has gradually expanded the concept – sandwiches made in front of the customer from fresh ingredients – into a successful chain which now comprises 15 outlets in the City of London and Canary Wharf.

Heavily influenced by Edward Goldsmith, his step-father’s brother and the founder of The Ecologist, Birley has always maintained a keen interest in environmental matters. In 2002, he set up Envirotrade, a project assisting small farmers in Mozambique through reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and agroforestry by generating carbon credits through which they could earn a better living wage. The Sofala Project, in Mozambique, remains the only carbon project to have been awarded gold in all three categories of the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standard. The Sofala Community Carbon Project earned $3,453,228 from carbon offset sales between 2004 and 2013, and the participating communities earned $2,136,744 from agroforestry and avoided deforestation activities directly from the project.

2018

Birley has a daughter, Maud, by a former girlfriend. He married Lucy Ferry, the ex-wife of Bryan Ferry, in October 2006. She committed suicide on 23 July 2018 at the age of 58.

In December 2018, Birley joined residents' protest against plans for a new 24-hour casino in Mayfair.

2012

Birley owns and runs 5 Hertford Street (5HS), a private members' club in Mayfair. Having found a dilapidated block of buildings in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, he raised £30 million to refurbish them; fashion designer Rifat Özbek was commissioned to design the interiors. 5 Hertford Street opened in June 2012 with a launch party attended by Mick Jagger, Kate Moss, and Daphne Guinness. The basement nightclub was named Loulou's after Birley’s late cousin, Loulou De La Falaise. Over the following five years, 5HS became a staple of London’s social scene, and is where Prince Harry and his fiancée Meghan Markle had their first date. The success of 5HS emboldened Birley to launch new membership-based venues.

However, the crash in the international carbon trading market meant that Birley increasingly had to fund the projects out of his own pocket. Having spent several million, he handed the projects back to the community in 2012, but continued making donations until 2015.

2010

In April 2010, the BBC admitted that a documentary about Birley titled Taking The Credit, should not have been shown because of conflicts of interest. The BBC trust stated in its final report in 2011 that "there was no suggestion that the ACLT, Envirotrade or any personnel connected to the organisations had acted improperly".

2006

However, in 2006 Birley was dismissed from his position by his father, after a family row following his hiring of a private investigator to do a background check on his sister’s new boyfriend. Birley and India Jane later reconciled at her wedding. Mark Birley, by now unwell (he died in August 2007) and without his son to run the group of clubs, sold them to the clothing tycoon Richard Caring, who continues to operate them under the ‘Birley Clubs’ brand (with the exception of Mark’s Club, which was sold on).

1990

In the late 1990s, with his father Mark unable to direct his Mayfair Private Members Clubs on a day-to-day basis, Robin and his sister India-Jane took on an increasing role in the management of the clubs, which comprised Annabel's (named after his mother), Harry’s Bar, Mark’s Club, George and the Bath and Racquets Club.

1986

In 1986, his brother Rupert was presumed drowned in mysterious circumstances whilst working in Togo, but his body was never recovered.

1975

Birley is a trustee of the Howletts and Port Lympne Animal Park which is committed to returning rare and endangered animals back to their natural habitats. Working with the two Parks, Howletts Wild Animal Park opened in 1975 and the Port Lympne Reserve opened in 1976, the Foundation runs its own projects overseas and support other reintroduction programmes across Asia and Africa.

1958

Robin Marcus Birley (born 19 February 1958) is an English businessman, entrepreneur and political donor. He is the son of Lady Annabel Goldsmith and the night club owner Mark Birley. He had a brother, Rupert, who disappeared and is presumed deceased, and has a sister, India Jane Birley.