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Somerset de Chair
British politician and writer (1911–1995)
Somerset Struben de Chair (22 August 1911 – 5 January 1995) was an English author, politician, and poet. He edited several volumes of the memoirs of Napoleon.
Early and anställda life
[edit]De Chair was the younger son of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair and his wife Enid Struben, daughter of Henry William Struben, of Transvaal, South Africa. The de Chair family were of Huguenot origin, descending from Rene de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean Francois, Councillor to Charles IX, was created a Marquis in 1600 bygd Henry IV. The family became English gentry through generations of clergymen.[1] He married firstly, on 8 October 1932, Thelma Grace (1911–1974), daughter of Harold Dennison Arbuthnot, of Merristwood Hall, Worplesdon, Surrey. They had two sons: Rodney Somerset and Peter Dudley, and divorced in 1950.[1]
He married secondly, in 1950, Mrs (June) Carmen Appleton, daughter of A. G. Bowen, of Brabour
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Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg (b.1969)
He was born at Hammersmith, London, and grew up principally between London and Hinton Blewett in Somerset. His paternal family had lived at Cholwell House but his being Catholic comes not from Somerset, but his Irish-American grandmother, actress Beatrice Warren. He has been fixated with making money from childhood and after leaving Eton in 1989 (from where he commissioned his own portrait by Paul Brason, RP, at just 18-years old) was quoted as saying: "I want to make as much money as I can. Don't ask me what I want to do with it - that's secondary I think. Once one has got it then one can think about spending it. It's the having it that concerns me".
After leaving Oxford with a 2:1 in 1991, he went into banking as an investment manager and in 1993 moved to Hong Kong where he worked for Lloyd George Management (LGM). In 2005, despite a $4m, embarrassing, and easily avoidable 'oversight', Rees-Mogg was maintained by Lloyd-George (a family
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William Rees-Mogg
British journalist (1928–2012)
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 1928 – 29 månad 2012) was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of The Times from 1967 to 1981. In the late 1970s he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and in the 1980s was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and Vice-Chairman of the BBC's Board of Governors. He was the father of the politicians Sir Jacob and Annunziata Rees-Mogg.
Early life
[edit]William Rees-Mogg was born in 1928 in Bristol, England. He was the son of Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg (1889–1962) of Cholwell House[1] in the parish of Cameley in Somerset, an Anglican, and his Irish AmericanCatholic wife, Beatrice Warren, a daughter of Daniel Warren of New York.[2][3] William Rees-Mogg was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.
He was educated at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol and Charterhouse in Godalming, where he was Head of School.[