William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Dartmouth FCA MEP |
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| Deputy Chair of the UK Independence Party & International Trade Spokesman | |
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Assumed office 24 February 2016 Serving with Diane James, Suzanne Evans |
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| Leader |
Nigel Farage Diane James Paul Nuttall |
| Preceded by |
Neil Hamilton Suzanne Evans |
| Member of the European Parliament for South West England & Gibraltar |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Roger Knapman |
| Member of the House of Lords as 10th Earl of Dartmouth |
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In office 14 December 1997 – 11 November 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Gerald, 9th Earl of Dartmouth |
| Succeeded by | House of Lords Act 1999 |
| UKIP Trade Spokesperson | |
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Assumed office 24 July 2014 |
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| Leader |
Nigel Farage Paul Nuttall |
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23 September 1949 London, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Fiona Campbell |
| Children | 1 |
| Parents |
Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth Raine McCorquodale |
| Alma mater |
Christ Church, Oxford Harvard University |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
| Website | williamdartmouth |
William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth, FCA (born 23 September 1949) is a British politician and hereditary peer, usually known as William Dartmouth.
Dartmouth sits in the European Parliament as MEP for South West England, representing the UK Independence Party (UKIP), of which he is one of two national Deputy Chairmen.
Dartmouth is the eldest son of the 9th Earl of Dartmouth by his marriage to Raine McCorquodale, the daughter of romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland. Thus, he became a stepbrother of Diana, Princess of Wales upon his mother's second marriage to the 8th Earl Spencer.
Dartmouth was educated at Eton College before going up to Christ Church, Oxford (MA), where he was elected an officer of the Oxford University Conservative Association and later of the Oxford Union Society. He studied further at Harvard Business School, graduating as MBA.
Lord Dartmouth worked as a chartered accountant (FCA 1975), like his father whose titles he inherited in 1997. As Earl of Dartmouth he sat as Conservative peer in the House of Lords until 1999, when the Labour government of Tony Blair removed all but 92 hereditary peers from Parliament. In January 2007, Dartmouth announced he was leaving the Conservative Party in favour of UKIP, citing concerns about the policies of David Cameron (then Leader of HM Opposition).
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