Peter Ainsworth

Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for East Surrey. The son of a naval officer, Ainsworth was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham, Bradfield College, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he graduated in 1979 with an MA in English Literature and Language. On leaving university he became a researcher to the former Conservative Member of the European Par... more

Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for East Surrey. The son of a naval officer, Ainsworth was educated at the Ludgrove School in Wokingham, Bradfield College, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he graduated in 1979 with an MA in English Literature and Language. On leaving university he became a researcher to the former Conservative Member of the European Parliament, Sir John Stewart-Clark, and then in 1981 became a merchant banker. He worked as an investments analyst for Laing & Cruickshank Investment Management (bought by UBS in 2004) from 1981-5, and then in corporate finance for S.G. Warburg Securities (bought by UBS in 1994) from 1985-92, where he became a director from 1990-2. He married Claire Burnett in Hatfield in 1981, with whom he has had a son (born December 1991) and two daughters (born August 1988 and July 1990). He was elected as a councillor to the London Borough of Wandsworth in... less