James Archer

The Hon. James Howard Archer (born 10 June 1974) is an English businessman, and was previously a stock market trader. His parents are Jeffrey Archer, the novelist and former Conservative politician, and Dame Mary Archer, a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion.

Personal life Archer was educated at Eton College, where he became captain of the athletics team, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied chemistry and in 1993 ran in the Oxford and Cambridge Varsity match.

In 2003 he met Tara Bernerd, who had just opened up the architectural and design agency Target Living, and they were married in Rome in 2005. However, by mid 2009 they were separated and later divorced.

In 2013, Archer married Gwyneth Harrison.

Career At Credit Suisse First Boston, in London, Archer was a member of a cadre of five proprietary traders known as the "Flaming Ferraris" after the rum cocktail they adopted as their trademark drink. Archer was required to pay £50,000 towards the legal costs of the Securities and Futures Authority.

Since 2001, Archer has served as a director of Marlborough Gate House (Freehold) Ltd., of which he was previously Company Secretary, resigning in 2009; a director of TFM Partners; a Limited Liability Partner in Target Living Homes LPP, together with his ex-wife Tara Bernerd.