Crispin James Alan Nevill Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer (born 8 March 1955), is a

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peer who is a descendant of both the well-known Irish nationalist

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and the banker

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. In 2003, he inherited the title Baron Latymer from his father, the 8th Baron Latymer (1926–2003). He was educated at

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and

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. He rowed in the

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in 1972 (in the eight) and in 1973 (in the eight and the coxless pair, winning a silver medal in the latter), then represented Oxford in the

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team in

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and

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, winning the latter. In 2005, Lord Latymer sailed single-handedly across the

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, on the identical journey his father had taken some decades previously. Following the voyage which raised £40000 for

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, Latymer wrote and published the voyage in a book entitled ''Where the Ocean Meets the Sky'' (

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, 2009), the name taken from the

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song, ''

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''. Lord Latymer is a retired international Private Banker. He married Lucy Rose Deedes, the daughter of

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, whom he has since

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. They have three children: the newspaper columnist Sophia Money-Coutts, magician

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, and another daughter, Rosie.

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