Lord mogg biography

He was born in Bristol and was brought up at Cholwell House in Somerset, built in by his great-grandfather, a country solicitor.

Failing his scholarship exam to Eton, he took and won a scholarship to Charterhouse, meaning that his father only had to pay half of the school fees.

Lord mogg biography

Generally remembered as "pompous," he gained a reputation for playing the stock market and was later parodied by his classmate, Simon Raven, as the "deeply unlikeable" and "scheming opportunist" Somerset Lloyd-James in his book Alms for Oblivion.

From Charterhouse, he won another scholarship to read history at Balliol College, Oxford, becoming President of the Oxford Union in

In his memoirs he stated, "my interest in business and politics comes from my American side".

But, immediately after graduating, he 'accidentally' began his career in journalism with the Financial Times and during the same period he contested the seat of Chester-le-Street for the Conservatives, but lost on