Janet de Botton
Birthname Dame Janet Frances de Botton, DBE Birthplace United Kingdom Profession Businesswoman Net worth $300,000,000 Source of Wealth Inheritance and Arts Nationality British Country United Kingdom Marital Status Married (Gilbert de Botton) Children 2 (Alain and Miel)Quick Links
De Botton's second husband, Gilbert, a London-based Swiss financier, sold his Global Asset Management operation for £234m a year before his death. His widow was listed by American magazine ARTnews as among the world's top 200 art collectors. She has donated works to the Tate.
Born Janet Wolfson, de Botton was also formerly known as Janet Green. She is the daughter of Lord Wolfson of Marylebone and the granddaughter of Isaac Wolfson of the Great Universal Stores family, and previously the wife of multi-billionaire Michael Green. Her late husband, Swiss financier Gilbert de Botton, sold Global Asset Management for £234m in 1999.
In June 2010, the Wolfson Foundation announced the appointment of de Botton as the new Chairman following a unanimous decision by the Trustees. De Botton has been a Trustee of Tate and Chairman of the Council of Tate Modern. She was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2006.
In the Sunday Times Rich List Britain's wealthiest women, she got a high rank with an estimated net worth of $300 million.
Janet de Botton is also a prominent collector of modern art. In 1996, de Botton presented sixty works of art to Tate, including examples by Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Cindy Sherman, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Nancy Spero, Andy Warhol, and Bill Woodrow.
Earnings & Financial Data
Date | Category | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
2019 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation to 35 museums and galleries across England under the CMS/Wolfson Museum and Galleries Improvement Fund | $5,180,000 |
2019 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation to outstanding projects across the UK in the fields of Science, Health, the Arts and Humanities and Secondary Education | $15,550,000 |
2018 | Asset | Current value of the website tate.org.uk as one of the company's trustees | $480,000 |
2018 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to Wolfson College Cambridge | $1,650,000 |
2017 | Earning Turned Donation | Grants awarded to more than 10 thousand projects as the chairman of Wolfson Foundation | $1,060,000,000 |
2017 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation to medical research, education, arts and welfare | $66,570,000 |
2016 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the York Archaeological Trust towards the restoration and redevelopment of the JORVIK Viking Centre following its devastation by flood the preceding year | $329,930 |
2015 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the Biological Imaging Centre investment of the University of Sussex to drive vital cancer and neuroscience research | $1,980,000 |
2014 | Earning Turned Donation | Grants awarded by Janet De Botton's Wolfson Foundation to about 10,000 projects over the past 58 years | $989,800,000 |
2013 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to Autism Initiatives, a charity which provides specialist support services to people with autism across the UK | $17,160 |
2013 | Earning Turned Donation | A special grant to acknowledge the importance of the Tate’s Bankside gallery and the impact it has had on the arts in Britain since it opened in 2000 from Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation | $6,600,000 |
2013 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama that reflects the Foundations' aim of recognising excellence in the performing arts by supporting capital works combined with encouragement for talented young individuals | $527,890 |
2013 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation for the major refurbishment of Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St. Austell | $116,140 |
2012 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the new RNIB Cymru South Wales Centre of Excellence in Cardiff | $65,990 |
2012 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to Greenhead College to enable them to refurbish three chemistry laboratories and two technicians rooms | $131,970 |
2011 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to Inveravon Kirk, in the Scottish Highlands toward the conservation of Pictish Symbol stones | $26,390 |
2011 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to Vale House, a new nursing home and palliative care facility in Oxfordshire for people with severe dementia | $92,380 |
2010 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the University of York (Centre for Immunology and Infection) to provide the researchers with three further floors of laboratories as well as facilities for handling high risk pathogens and running clinical trials | $1,320,000 |
2010 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to Upton Hall School on Merseyside towards science equipment | $42,230 |
2010 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation towards science equipment for a new regional science centre at Oldham Sixth Form College | $131,970 |
2010 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the Stowe House, Buckinghamshire for the restoration of the grotto in the Stowe Landscape Gardens | $131,970 |
2010 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to help create a new art gallery to house the collection of Dame Barbara Hepworth and other 20th Century British artists | $329,930 |
2010 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the University of Nottingham's Energy Technologies Building for the creation of the Wolfson Prototyping Hall that provides space for the testing of full-scale prototypes of facades and building fabric, for the onsite testing of building integrated renewable energy systems, and innovative technologies for energy demand reduction | $1,320,000 |
2008 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation for the creation of new science laboratories at Jordanhill School in Glasgow | $52,790 |
2008 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation for the creation of a new building focussed particularly on translational research: the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre | $2,310,000 |
2007 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the Stowe House for the preservation of their State Rooms | $131,970 |
2007 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation for the creation of a key new pharmacogenetics research facility at the University of Liverpool | $2,640,000 |
2005 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation for the creation of a major new research building for Oxford's Department of Biochemistry as well as support for the Structural Bio-Informatics Unit housed in the building | $5,940,000 |
2004 | Earning Turned Donation | Investment in the University of Glasgow's Institute of Cancer Sciences to undertake research of international quality directed at key aspects of cancer cell behaviour with the ambition of forging new therapies and diagnostic tools to help cancer sufferers | $2,640,000 |
1988 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation of 50 artworks to the Tate Gallery | $4,200,000 |
1988 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the Jordanhill School towards the purchase of IT equipment | $32,990 |
1973 | Earning Turned Donation | Donation by Janet De Botton's The Wolfson Foundation to the University of Glasgow's Institute of Cancer Sciences' Beatson Institute of Cancer Research | $541,090 |
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