Jamie Byng
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27 June 1969
James Byng | |
|---|---|
| Born | James Edmund Byng 27 June 1969 |
| Education | Winchester College |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Employer | Canongate Books |
| Spouses | Elizabeth Sheinkman
(m. 2005; div. 2016)Silvia Gimenez Varela
(m. 2021) |
| Children | 5 |
| Relatives | Thomas Byng, 8th Earl of Strafford (father) Georgia Byng (sister) Sir Christopher Bland (stepfather) Archie Bland (half-brother) |
James Edmund Byng (born 27 June 1969) is a British publisher. He works for the independent publishing firm Canongate Books, where he is the CEO and publisher.[1]
Byng grew up in the village of Abbots Worthy in Hampshire, England.[2] The second son of the 8th Earl of Strafford and his first wife Jennifer May, he is a brother of the author Lady Georgia Byng, and through his stepfather, Sir Christopher Bland (the former chairman of the BBC, British Telecom and Royal Shakespeare Company), he is the half-brother of Archie Bland, print journalist and former deputy editor of The Independent.[3][4]
Education and family
Byng was educated at Winchester College, an independent boarding-school for boys in the cathedral city of Winchester in Hampshire, Southern England, followed by the University of Edinburgh.[5] While attending the university, he ran a funk, reggae, and rare groove night club named "Chocolate City" (after the Parliament classic) at The Venue with his first wife, Whitney McVeigh,[6] with whom he has two children – a daughter Marley and son Leo. Whitney McVeigh is the daughter of a socialite mother and her father is an American banker.[7][2] Byng and McVeigh separated in 2001, and in 2005 Byng married literary agent Elizabeth Sheinkman,[8][9] with whom he has two children, Ivy and Nathaniel.[10] Byng separated from Sheinkman in 2016 and married Silvia Gimenez Varela in 2021 and they have one child.[citation needed]