Brother of ITV legend Jeremy Paxman leaves £2.1million fortune to his family after tragic death aged 73
FAMILY FORTUNE Brother of ITV legend Jeremy Paxman leaves £2.1million fortune to his family after tragic death aged 73
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AN TV star's brother has left a massive £2 million estate to his family after tragically passing away aged 73.
Giles Paxman, the diplomat brother of BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman, left a whopping £2.1 million to his family after his tragic passing.
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The British Ambassador, Giles Paxman, celebrated the Royal Wedding at the British Embassy in 2011
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Giles was the younger brother of esteemed TV star Jeremy Paxman
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He had a distinguished career as a civil servant and was Britain's ambassador to Mexico and then Spain.
Giles Paxman was once interviewed on BBC Newsnight by his own brother Jeremy about the devastation caused in Mexico by Hurricane Wilma.
His will was signed less than a month before his death and stated the value of his estate at a little over £2 million.
It will be passed to his wife Segolene, the couple lived in south-west London together and had three daughters.
They married in Agen, France, in 1980 and had three daughters — Julia, who now works in the luxury travel industry, Lauren, a secondary school teacher, and Alice, a vet.
He was appointed ambassador to Mexico in 2005 and learnt in his second week in office that Hurricane Wilma was headed straight for Cancun.
In 2009 Paxman was appointed Britain's ambassador to Spain where he stayed for four years.
He left the diplomatic service in 2013 and the same year he was honoured for his service,
Giles was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George later in 2013.
Unlike many of his predecessors Paxman never received a knighthood.
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Giles Paxman and his wife Segolene Paxman in Spain
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Giles Paxman, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is presented to Spanish King Juan Carlos I
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After Giles retired from his long career in the civil service he sailed across the Atlantic twice and the Pacific once.
Timothy Giles Paxman was born at Gosport, Hampshire, on November 15, 1951.
He was the second of four siblings with his famous brother Jeremy born 18 months earlier.
Giles was brought up in the Lickey Hills, south of Birmingham and followed Jeremy to Malvern College.
He then went on and read Modern Languages at New College, Oxford, with a year as a riding instructor in France.
Giles tragically passed away from lung cancer on March 8, earlier this year, he was aged 73.
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