David Leslie Moreton, 7th Earl of Ducie (born 20 September 1951) is a British peer, landowner, and farmer. He was a member of the

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from 1991 to 1999. He was previously known as Lord Moreton. The son of Basil Moreton, 6th Earl of Ducie, and his wife Alison Bates, he was educated at

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and

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, where he graduated

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in agriculture in 1973.''

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'', volume 1 (Burke's Peerage Ltd., 2003), p. 1184 Becoming a career farmer on his father's estate in Gloucestershire, on 12 November 1991 he succeeded as the

Earl of Ducie Earl of Ducie is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1837 for Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 4th Baron Ducie. The family descends from Edward Moreton (17th century), who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ducie. Their ...

(created 1837), Baron Ducie (1763), and Baron Moreton of Tortworth (1837). In 2003 Ducie was living at Talbots End Farm,

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, Gloucestershire. Although the family seat,

Tortworth Court Tortworth Court is a Victorian architecture, Victorian mansion in Tortworth near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. England. It was built in Tudor Style architecture, Tudor style for the Henry Reynolds-Moret ...

, was sold after the Second World War, much of its estate, including a nearby lake and woodland, remains in the hands of Tortworth Estates Ltd, of which Ducie is a Director.''International Dendrology Society Year Book 2001'', p. 131 On 26 April 1975, as Lord Moreton he married Helen Duchesne, a daughter of M. L. Duchesne, and they have two children: *James Berkeley Moreton, Lord Moreton (born 1981) *Lady Claire Alison Moreton (born 1984)

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