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Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale (born 20 September 1974) is a British farmer, estate owner and documentary film-maker.
Education and personal life
He attended
Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ...
, studied economics at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...
, and law at
City, University of London
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. He has two children, Lily and Salvador, with author Sasha Norris, and two further children, Ferdinand and Francis, with Diana Redvers, who he married in 2009. In 2016 he signed an open letter to the Times against Brexit on behalf of British business leaders, and in 2018 he became patron of the West Berkshire
Mencap
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History
Established by Judy Fryd in 1946 as The National Association of Parents of Backwards Ch ...
.
Career
Documentary film
His 2002 film for the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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, ''LAPD Blues'', won the highest ratings of that year for a BBC current affairs documentary.
In 2005–2008 he made a three-year
biopic of the fourteenth
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama (, ; ) is a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th and current D ...
Tenzin Gyatso
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...
, ''The Unwinking Gaze''. In this film he recorded the Dalai Lama as a leader of the Tibetan people, rather than portraying him as spiritual leader in
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (also referred to as Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Lamaism, Lamaistic Buddhism, Himalayan Buddhism, and Northern Buddhism) is the form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet and Bhutan, where it is the dominant religion. It is also in majo ...
as is done customarily. The documentary was awarded Mammoth Best Documentary in 2008 as well as the runner up in the Best Documentary section for the
Foreign Press Association
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* Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries
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in 2008. The Guardian suggested that it could force China into a more civil and humanitarian stance towards Tibet.
Wasing estate
Dugdale took over management of the
Wasing estate in Berkshire (which includes Wasing Place and Wasing Park) from his grandparents in 2008. Its manor is centred on a
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
which was purchased in 1759 by the London nautical publisher
John Mount, a maternal ancestor of Dugdale's. Mount built the mansion Wasing Place, completed in 1770, which became the home of his descendants the
MPs,
William Mount,
William George Mount
William George Mount DL (18 July 1824 – 14 January 1906) was a British landowner, Conservative politician, and the first Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency.
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.‘MOU ...
and
Sir William Mount. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1945.
Under Dugdale Wasing Park hosted
Glade Festival
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after its transfer from a stage at
Glastonbury Festival.
In 2015 he concluded a £3 million restoration project, and opened the estate up to alternative events. Later that year, sixty pheasants were killed with catapults and beheaded on the estate.
In 2016 the annual Mizuno
Endure 24 race held on the estate was disrupted when hundreds of runners reported a "mystery illness" which they had contracted on site.
In 2018 Dugdale submitted plans to build further visitor facilities and a farm shop at the Wasing estate, claiming 30 jobs would be created.
On the death of Dugdale's mother, Lady Cecilia Dugdale, in 2019 Dugdale inherited the estate in full after many years of managing and farming it. He is the 7th generation of his maternal family (the Mount baronets) to do so.
In 2020 Dugdale co-founded the Medicine Festival on the estate.
Family
Dugdale is the son of former
Aston Villa chairman
Sir William Dugdale, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Stratford Dugdale, 2nd Baronet, (29 March 1922 – 13 November 2014) was the chairman of Aston Villa from 1975 to 1978. Dugdale arrived at Aston Villa as a director when they were in the third division, having been relegated due t ...
of
Blyth Hall
Blyth Hall is a privately owned mansion house on the banks of the River Blythe situated near Shustoke, Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
The estate was purchased in 1625 by Sir William Dugdale, a prominent antiquarian, who shortly th ...
, a descendant of the
Noble
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* Noble Island, Gr ...
House of Stratford
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, and his wife, Cecilia (Cylla) Mary, daughter of
Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Malcolm Mount, 2nd Baronet, TD (28 December 1904 – 22 June 1993), was a British Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire and maternal grandfather to David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister and leader of the Cons ...
of
Wasing Place in
Berkshire. Dugdale is also a cousin of former
Conservative Party
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leader and
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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,
David Cameron.
[Times Obituaries]
Cylla, Lady Dugdale obituary
The Times, 21 January 2019
Filmography
References
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Stratford family
1974 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Manchester
British documentary filmmakers
People from Wasing
Younger sons of baronets