Best-selling English author and former politician, Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, has an estimated net worth of$195 million. The author's books have sold 330 million copies, netting £54 million. He owns an apartment overlooking the Thames and art pieces which are valued at £100 million. The son of a printer, at the age of 29 he became Conservative MP for Louth but the prospect of financial ruin in his thirties spurred him on to write the 1976 bestseller Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. He became deputy chairman of the Tory party in 1985 and later served half of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice. His wife, Mary, is chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and the couple has two sons.

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