Personal Life
In 2010 Hester separated from his wife, a Canadian fellow banker, Barbara Abt. The couple, who met while both working at Credit Suisse, have five children. The family home was in Holland Park, west London, which reportedly went to his wife on their divorce and they also had a 350 acre estate in Oxfordshire, Broughton Grange. One of Hester's passions is said to be the garden of Broughton Grange and development of its arboretum, which was designed by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith and includes pleached limes, formal beds and five of the first batch of Australian Wollemi pines ever to be brought into the UK.
Hester is a trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 2013 he was reported as having a second wife, Suzy Neubert, a wealth manager at J O Hambro
Hester enjoys tennis, running and shooting, as well as skiing, for which he owns a chalet in Verbier, Switzerland. Hester also enjoys horse riding, and his first wife is a master of fox hounds in Warwickshire. He is quoted as having said: "It’s very important to keep our marriage together that I do the same as she does."
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