Jacob Rees-Mogg is a prominent Brexit supporter who served as Leader of the House of Commons from 2019 to 2022. His father was a journalist and former Editor of The Times from January 1967 to March 1981.
Rees-Mogg was born on May 24, 1969, in Hammersmith, London, the younger son of William Rees-Mogg (1928-2012), editor of The Times newspaper, who was made a life peer in 1988, and his wife Gillian Shakespeare Morris, formerly his secretary, and the daughter of Thomas Richard Morris, a lorry driver, car salesman, local government politician, and Conservative mayor of St Pancras in London.
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Jacob has 5 sons and 1 daughter.
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Rees-Mogg married Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair, a trade magazine writer and the only child of Somerset de Chair and his fourth wife Lady Juliet Tadgell, in 2006.
In 2010 the couple acquired the Grade II* listed Gournay Court in West Harptree, where they live with their six children.
The house is a former Red Cross hospital where Rees-great Mogg’s aunt served as a volunteer nurse and the resident matron during the First World War.
