James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne

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(Charles) James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne FRSA (born 12 September 1939) is a British art dealer and businessman. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. In 1977, he succeeded to his father's title.

The son of the 1st Baron Crathorne and Nancy Tennant, he was educated at Eton College in Berkshire. He was further educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in fine arts in 1963. Dugdale worked in the impressionist painting department of Sotheby & Co from 1963 until 1966, when he became assistant to president of the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York, a post he held until 1969. Since 1969, he has been independent fine art consultancy for James Dugdale & Associates and James Crathorne & Associates and has made several lecture tours to the United States. In 1981, Dugdale held a lecture series about "Aspects of England" in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and in 1988, he made a lecture tour for the bicentenary of Australia. From 1979 to 1986, he was director of Blakeney Hotels Ltd, from 1988 to 1999 of Woodhouse Securities Ltd and from 2000 to 2001 of Hand Picked Hotels. Between 1996 and 1999, he was also director of Cliveden plc and between 1999 and 2002 of its successor Cliveden Ltd.

Dugdale was member of council of RSA Security from 1982 to 1988, member of the court of the University of Leeds from 1985 to 1997 and governor of the Queen Margaret's School, York Ltd from 1986 to 1999. Since 1983, he has been member of the editorial board of the House Magazine and since 1987 president of the Yarm Civic Society. For the Georgian Group he has been a member of its executive committee, and was its chair between 1990 to 1999. Dugdale has been also president of the Cleveland Sea Cadets, of the Cleveland Family History Society as well as of the Hambleton District of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) since 1988. He was patron of the Cleveland Community Foundation from 1990 to 2004 and president of the Cleveland and North Yorkshire Magistrates' Association from 1997 to 2003. For the Joint Committee of the National Amenity Societies, he was deputy chair between 1993 and 1996 and chair between 1996 and 1999. Since 1997, Dugdale has been vice president of The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) and since 1998 president of the Cleveland Search and Rescue Team. Since 1999, he has been also president of the North Yorkshire County Scout Council, patron of the North Yorkshire Branch of the British Red Cross, as well as member of the court of the University of York and the University of Hull. Dugdale has been vice-president of the Yorkshire and Humberside branch of the Reserve Forces and Cadets Association (RFCA) since 1999, and its president since 2006. He has been further vicepresident of the RFCA in North England since 2001, president of the Cleveland and South Durham Magistrates' Association since 2003 and patron of the Tees Valley Community Foundation since 2004.

Dugdale has been trustee of the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond since 1970, vice-president of the Cleveland Wildlife Trust since 1989 and patron of the Attingham Trust for the Study of the British Country House since 1990. For the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum Trust, he has been trustee since 1978 and chair since 1993. From 1988 to 1994, Dugdale was member of the National Trust of the Yorkshire Regional Committee and from 1992 to 1995 trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. In 1972, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and in 1999, he was made a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John (KStJ). In 2002, Dugdale has received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal. Since 1999, he has been Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire.

Since 1970, he has been married to Sylvia Mary Montgomery, a daughter to the actress Jane Baxter. They have two daughters and a son.

[edit] Works

• Edouard Vuillard (1967)
• Tennant's Stalk (1973)
• A Present from Crathorne (1989)
• Cliveden, the Place and the People (1995)
• The Royal Crescent Book of Bath (1998)
• Parliament in Pictures (1999)

[edit] References

• DodOnline. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.

Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir Marcus Worsley, Bt	Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire 1999–present	Succeeded by (current incumbent)
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Crathorne	Baron Crathorne 1977–present	Succeeded by (current incumbent)