JACOB REES-MOGG once said he hoped to have enough children to make up a cricket team – and he is not far off as he has six unusually named children with his writer wife Helena de Chair.
Jacob Rees-Mogg married Helena Anne Beatrix Wentworth Fitzwilliam de Chair in 2007. Together, the couple has six children, named Sixtus, Mary, Peter, Thomas, Alfred, and Anselm, whom each has at least two middle names
Who is Jacob Rees-Mogg’s son Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg?
Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg is one of the six chliden of Jacob Rees-Mogg . Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg was born 2012 to Jacob William Rees-Mogg (1969) and Helena de Chair (1977) . Anselm was named after another Archbishop of Canterbury with de Chair believed to have said she thought it was a “lovely” name.
Charles is after Charles Watson-Wentworth, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. The wealthy aristocrat ancestor of Helena was Whig Prime Minister briefly in the 1700s and left a huge fortune. A painting of his horse hangs in the National Gallery.
