Martin Lewis
Martin Steven Lewis (born 9 May 1972) is an English financial journalist. He is also a money expert for ITV and his own show The Martin Lewis Money Show presenting alongside Angellica Bell. He founded the website MoneySavingExpert.com. He sold the website in 2012 to the Moneysupermarket.com group for up to £87,000,000.
Martin Lewis | |
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| Born | Martin Steven Lewis 9 May 1972 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Education | The King's School, Chester |
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| Occupation | Television presenter, journalist, author, entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Known for | Founder, editor-in-chief of MoneySavingExpert.com |
| Television | The Martin Lewis Money Show, ITV |
| Spouse(s) | Lara Lewington (m. 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | MoneySavingExpert.com |
Early life
Lewis was born at Withington Hospital in Manchester in 1972. His family lived in Didsbury, a suburb of Manchester. While still a boy, he moved with his family to the village of Norley, near Delamere Forest in rural Cheshire. At here, his father was appointed headmaster of Delamere Forest School, a Jewish school for students in special educational needs. His mother, Susan Lewis, died after a horse riding accident. It involved a collision with a truck, when he was 11 years old.
He later became a patron of the children's charity Grief Encounter and an advocate for life insurance. Lewis attended The King's School, an independent school in Chester. Lewis has stated that he was the target of anti-Semitism when he was a school boy in Chester, noting that, as one of only two Jewish boys in his year. He was nicknamed "Jew" by other pupils.
Education
He then studied government and law at the London School of Economics. In 1997 he became a postgraduate student in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University's Center for Journalistic Studies. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Chester.