---
title: "DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c758f2e1-45c8-5fdc-b22d-3eb72bbd13b2
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/c758f2e1-45c8-5fdc-b22d-3eb72bbd13b2
identifier: oo:GB-COH-02385658
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-02385658`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c758f2e1-45c8-5fdc-b22d-3eb72bbd13b2  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/c758f2e1-45c8-5fdc-b22d-3eb72bbd13b2  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/4ead41c2-bf0a-578a-9b8f-79c7f73d6ed7
- **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c1d7d933-53a6-52b2-be7a-374ae65e3725
- **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/27bcc41b-256d-42e3-8984-bce6e66a9de0
- **BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/4ead41c2-bf0a-578a-9b8f-79c7f73d6ed7

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

1. **BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED*
1. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner → *DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED*
1. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner → *DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED*
1. **BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED*
2. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner → *BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED*
2. **BATSFORD BOOKS HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED*
2. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner → *BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED*
2. **BATSFORD BOOKS HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *BATSFORD BOOKS GROUP LIMITED*
3. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner → *BATSFORD BOOKS HOLDINGS LIMITED*
3. **B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *BATSFORD BOOKS HOLDINGS LIMITED*
3. **B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *BATSFORD BOOKS HOLDINGS LIMITED*
3. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner → *BATSFORD BOOKS HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner 100% → *B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner 100% → *B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **Mr Vaughan Frederick Grylls** — beneficial owner 37.5% → *B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell** — beneficial owner 37.5% → *B.T. BATSFORD HOLDINGS LIMITED*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `02385658`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1989-05-18
- **Registered office:** 43 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3HZ, England
- **SIC:** 58110

### Officers

- HANKS, Zana Samantha — secretary · appointed 2015-05-19
- POWELL, Polly Augusta Marchant — director · British · appointed 2005-11-23
- BENNETT, David Stephen — secretary · British · resigned 1998-05-05
- NESS, Robert James — secretary · British · appointed 2001-03-30 · resigned 2001-06-06
- PHILLIPS, Kevin — secretary · British · appointed 1998-05-05 · resigned 2001-03-30
- POTTERELL, Clive Ronald — secretary · British · appointed 2001-06-06 · resigned 2005-11-23
- SAMS, Allan Conan — secretary · British · appointed 2007-02-28 · resigned 2015-03-26
- WOOD, Robin Lee Knoyle — secretary · British · appointed 2005-11-23 · resigned 2007-02-28
- BENNETT, David Stephen — director · British · resigned 1999-08-31
- BENNETT, Linda Elizabeth — director · British · resigned 1998-05-05
- BROWN, Cameron Michael — director · British · appointed 1998-05-05 · resigned 2001-08-31
- BUTTERFIELD, Nigel Robert Adamson — director · British · appointed 2001-11-20 · resigned 2005-11-23
- LASSMAN, Peter — director · British · appointed 2001-10-15 · resigned 2005-09-01
- LEAVER, Marcus Edward — director · British · appointed 2003-02-14 · resigned 2005-03-11
- LENTON, Paul Richard — director · British · appointed 2004-01-21 · resigned 2005-11-23
- NEEDLEMAN, John Elliot — director · British · appointed 2001-10-15 · resigned 2003-03-27
- NESS, Robert James — director · British · appointed 2000-06-22 · resigned 2001-11-25
- OSBORN, Peter — director · British · appointed 1998-05-05 · resigned 2001-11-20
- PROFFIT, David Macer, Mr. — director · British · appointed 2005-01-23 · resigned 2013-12-23
- SANDERSON, Charles — director · British · appointed 2003-02-14 · resigned 2003-11-18

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Batsford Books Group Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/4ead41c2-bf0a-578a-9b8f-79c7f73d6ed7) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2021-05-07
- Mrs Polly Augusta Marchant Powell — right to appoint and remove directors · individual PSC · England — ceased 2021-12-01

## Provenance

- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02385658
- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02385658

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **DAVID BENNETT BOOKS LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c758f2e1-45c8-5fdc-b22d-3eb72bbd13b2 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/c758f2e1-45c8-5fdc-b22d-3eb72bbd13b2._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._