James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss

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Royal Agricultural College
(1978)
Spouses
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(m. 1983; div. 1988)​
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(m. 1995)​
Children2, including Lady Mary Charteris
Parent(s)David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss
Mavis Murray
Lord Wemyss' coat of arms Quarterly: 1st & 4th argent, a fess azure within a double tressure flory-counterflory gules (Charteris); 2nd & 3rd, Or, a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure (Wemyss)

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

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

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.[6]

Personal life

He married

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.[9] They live at Stanway House in Gloucestershire and at Gosford House in East Lothian.[10]

His uncle

Queen Elizabeth II
.

References

  1. ^ "Mind Your Language: Dot Wordsworth continues her look at BBC booklets on pronunciation published in the 1930s"
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U29275. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ "Search: neidpath". Electoral Commission Index of Donations. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Search: charteris". Electoral Commission Index of Donations. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  6. ^ Frank Johnson (19 June 2004). "Notebook". The Daily Telegraph.
  7. ^ "The finest Dicks in England". Tatler. 22 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Frock and roll... Lady Mary Charteris's very alternative wedding". Evening Standard. 4 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Amanda Feilding: About the Founder & Director". The Beckley Foundation. 2 November 2022.
  10. ^ "The Tatler List: 526 - Earl of Wemyss and March". Tatler. 11 February 2016. Archived from the original on 2 August 2016.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Earl of Wemyss
Earl of March
2008–present 		Incumbent


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