Deborah Meaden is best known for her role as an investor on the BBC One show Dragons’ Den. Her latest book is Why Money Matters, an illustrated non-fiction book about money for children (Red Shed)
Lady Hester Stanhope, in an 1841 sketch. “She was privileged, strident, incredibly confident and clever,” says Deborah Meaden
IN PROFILE
Lady Hester Stanhope was a writer, adventurer, traveller and archaeologist. The niece of prime minister William Pitt the Younger, she managed his 10 Downing Street household from 1804–06. After his death she began a life of adventure and travel, primarily in the Middle East, which she made her home. Her letters and memoirs made her famous as an explorer.