Benedict Grant Noakes

Who is Benedict Grant Noakes?

Benedict Grant Noakes was born in 1965. He is the son of the artist and portrait painter Michael Noakes, and the writer Vivien Noakes. After Eton College, he worked for several years as an independent television producer, during which time he produced and directed a large number of films for the BBC and Granada Television. He is now Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute and a writer.

A friend of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, his phone was allegedly hacked on numerous occasions by Glenn Mulcaire at the time of the McCartneys’ divorce in 2006. He is one of 46 claimants who brought a claim for compensation against Mulcaire and News International in April 2012.