Background
Wemyss is the second son of Francis, 12th Earl of Weymss and his first wife Mavis Murray.
Wemyss is the second son of Francis, 12th Earl of Weymss and his first wife Mavis Murray.
He was educated at Eton College. He went to Oxford (Bachelor 1969, Master of Arts 1974), obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy from Street Antony"s College in 1975.
While a teenager he was Page of Honour to the Queen Mother. He obtained a diploma from the Royal Agricultural College in 1978. He is known to have undergone an operation of trepanation, the practice of drilling holes in the head, in 1996 in Cairo.
He said, "lieutenant seemed to be very beneficial."
He runs Alro Group, a real estate fund management group.
He was subsequently known as Lord Neidpath as opposed to the usual courtesy title of Lord Elcho. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 2005, and is a supporter of UKIP, to whom he has made at least £54,000 in donations.
Personal life
Catherine Ingrid Guinness, daughter of Jonathan, 3rd Baron Moyne in July 1983. James and Catherine were divorced in 1988, and she remarried Robert Hesketh in 1990.
Amanda founded and directs the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust which carries out pioneering scientific research into psychoactive drugs and consciousness, and promotes evidence-based, health-oriented drug policy reform.
They live at Stanway House in Gloucetershire and at Gosford House in East Lothian.