James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss
British peer and landowner
Catherine Guinness
(m. 1983; div. 1988)Amanda Feilding
(m. 1995)Mavis Murray
James Donald Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March, DL (/ˈtʃɑːrtərɪs/;[1] born 22 June 1948), also known as Jamie Neidpath,[2] is a British peer and landowner.
Biography
Early life
Wemyss is the second son of Francis David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, and his first wife, Mavis Murray. He was educated at Eton College. While a teenager he was Page of Honour to the Queen Mother. He went to Oxford (BA 1969, MA 1974), obtaining a DPhil from St Antony's College in 1975.[3] He obtained a diploma from the Royal Agricultural College in 1978.[3] He is known to have undergone an operation of trepanation in 1996 in Cairo, drilling holes in the head, a practice undergone apparently to relieve depression and stimulate creativity. He said, "It seemed to be very beneficial."[2]
Career
He runs Alro Group, a real estate fund management group.[2]
He became heir apparent to the Earldoms of Wemyss and March on the death of his elder brother, Iain David Charteris, Lord Elcho, in 1954. He was subsequently known as Lord Neidpath, as opposed to the usual courtesy title of Lord Elcho. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 2005.[3]
He donated £58,000 between 2001 and 2015 to the political party UKIP as Lord James D Neidpath[4] or Lord James Charteris,[5] with no further donations registered to those names or Wemyss as of 2023[update].[6]
Personal life
He married Catherine Guinness (born 1952), daughter of Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (and granddaughter of Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness), in July 1983. They have a son, Francis Richard (Dick) Charteris, Lord Elcho (b. 1984),[7] who is the heir to the earldoms, and a daughter, Lady Mary Olivia Charteris, a model and singer.[8] James and Catherine were divorced in 1988, and she married Robert Hesketh in 1990.
He later married Amanda Feilding in January 1995.[3] In 1996 she founded The Foundation to Further Consciousness, renamed the Beckley Foundation in 1998, a non-profit organisation which carries out psychedelic research, and continued as its director as of 2023[update].[9] They live at Stanway House in Gloucestershire and at Gosford House in East Lothian.[10]
His uncle Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield was Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II.
References
- ^ "Mind Your Language: Dot Wordsworth continues her look at BBC booklets on pronunciation published in the 1930s"
- ^ a b c Dick, Sandra (13 January 2009). "Will successor to Gosford toe the line?". Edinburgh Evening News. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Wemyss". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U29275. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Search: neidpath". Electoral Commission Index of Donations. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ "Search: charteris". Electoral Commission Index of Donations. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
- ^ Frank Johnson (19 June 2004). "Notebook". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "The finest Dicks in England". Tatler. 22 August 2017.
- ^ "Frock and roll... Lady Mary Charteris's very alternative wedding". Evening Standard. 4 August 2015.
- ^ "Amanda Feilding: About the Founder & Director". The Beckley Foundation. 2 November 2022.
- ^ "The Tatler List: 526 - Earl of Wemyss and March". Tatler. 11 February 2016. Archived from the original on 2 August 2016.
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