Edmund Rees-Mogg

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Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg (born November 11, 1889 in Cameley , Somerset , † December 12, 1962 in Bath ) was a British politician.

Rees-Mogg, son of William Woolridge and Emily Walcot Rees-Mogg, née Savory, was a farmer. He received his school and academic training at the Charterhouse School and at University College, Oxford (BA from the University of Oxford 1912). During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC).

As a result, he held several local offices: 1945 he was High Sheriff of Somerset and during the Second World War, Chairman of Clutton Rural District Council, a Rural District in the county of Somerset.

A son from his marriage to his wife Beatrice, née Warren (1892–1978), was William Rees-Mogg . His grandson is the politician Jacob Rees-Mogg .

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Individual evidence

  1. Rees-Mogg, William Woolridge. In: Edward Walford: Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom , Part 2, Spottiswoode & Company Ltd., 1913, p. 993.
  2. Oxford University Calendar , University of Oxford, 1928, p. 766.