page_title: Cholwell, Cameley
section_title: William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928-2012)
hierarchical_section_title: Cholwell, Cameley / History / Rees-Mogg / William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928-2012)
caption_attribution_description: The frontage of Ston Easton Park
context_page_description: Cholwell is a historic manor in the parish of Cameley, North Somerset, England. The manor house, Cholwell House, was rebuilt in 1855 by William Rees-Mogg. It is a Grade II listed building.
context_section_description: William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928-2012), son, of Ston Easton Park and Hinton Blewett in Somerset, editor of The Times newspaper (1967–81), chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, and vice-chairman of the BBC, created a Life Peer in 1988. In 1964 he purchased the large Georgian mansion house Ston Easton Park near Bath, Somerset, built by John Hippisley-Coxe (died 1769), a relative of his ancestress Dorothy Hippisley, the wife of John Mogg (d.1728) of Farington Gurney, whose son purchased Cholwell in 1726. Ston Easton had been threatened with demolition and Rees-Mogg partially restored it. In 1978 he sold Ston Easton to the Smedley family. He married Gillian Shakespeare Morris, a daughter of Thomas Richard Morris, a Conservative party local government politician and Mayor of St Pancras in London. His 2nd son is Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969), of Gournay Court in the parish of West Harptree in Somerset, a financier and since 2010 the Conservative party Member of Parliament for North East Somerset, in which constituency is situated Cholwell House. Jacob's official website states: "Being elected fulfilled his ambition to represent the Somerset parliamentary seat in which his family has lived for generations".
caption: Ston Easton House, purchased by William Rees-Mogg in 1964
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