Zac Goldsmith
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Member of Parliament for Richmond Park |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 25 October 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Susan Kramer |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Olney |
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Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith 20 January 1975 Westminster, London, UK |
| Political party | Independent (Conservative until 2016) |
| Spouse(s) |
Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley (m. 1999; div. 2010) Alice Rothschild (m. 2013) |
| Children | 4 |
| Residence | Barnes, London |
| Occupation | Journalist, Politician |
| Website | zacgoldsmith.com |
Frank Zacharias Robin "Zac" Goldsmith (born 20 January 1975) is a British politician and journalist who, between the 2010 general election and October 2016, represented Richmond Park as its Member of Parliament (MP). He was the Conservative candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, which he lost to Sadiq Khan.
Born in London, the son of billionaire businessman and financier Sir James Goldsmith, he was educated at Eton College and the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies. In 1998, his uncle Edward Goldsmith made him editor of The Ecologist, a position he retained until 2007. Goldsmith was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Quality of Life Policy Group in 2005, co-authoring its report published in 2007.
Goldsmith was placed on the Conservative "A-List" of potential candidates in 2006, and then in March 2007, he was selected through an open primary to contest the constituency of Richmond Park against the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP, Susan Kramer. At the 2010 general election, he was elected to Parliament winning the seat with a majority of 4,091.
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