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James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave

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James "Jamie" Sherbrooke Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave (born 8 December 1940), styled Viscount Chewton until 1995, is a British peer and businessman.

Waldegrave is the son of Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave (1905 -1995) and Mary Hermione Grenfell Countess Waldegrave (1909 -1995). Earl Waldegrave was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1986, he married Mary Alison Anthea Furness (born 10 November 1946), a journalist for the Evening Standard and philosophy lecturer. She is the daughter of Sir Robert Furness, (1883 - 1954) and Joyce Lucy Sophie Marc, Lady Furness (1905 -1995). Earl Waldegrave inherited his father's titles in 1995 and he and his wife divorced in 1996 after having two sons.

Lord Waldegrave currently runs his estate based at Priory Farm, Chewton Mendip, Somerset with industrial units and offices let out to various businesses upon the old cheese making site. Earl Waldegrave is the elder brother of William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, a former Conservative Cabinet Minister in Margaret Thatcher's government and the brother of Lady Susan Hussey, Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.

Ancestry

Family of James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave
16. William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave
8. William Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton
17. Elizabeth Whitbread
4. Henry Waldegrave, 11th Earl Waldegrave
18. John Bastard
9. Frances Bastard
19. Frances Wade
2. Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave
20. Edmund Bastard
10. William Bastard
21. The Hon. Anne Rodney
5. Anne Bastard
22. George Woollcombe
11. Catherine Woollcombe
23. Mary Ley
1. James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave
24. Pascoe Grenfell
12. Pascoe Grenfell
25. Catherine Dupré
6. Arthur Grenfell
26. John Grenfell
13. Sophia Grenfell
27. Maria Masini
3. Mary Grenfell
28. George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton
14. The Hon. Neville Lyttelton
29. Mary Glynne
7. Hilda Lyttelton
30. The Hon. James Stuart-Wortley
15. Katherine Stuart-Wortley
31. The Hon. Jane Lawley

References

  • "James Waldegrave". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2007-12-28.
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Earl Waldegrave
1995–Present
Succeeded by
Incumbent