James "Jamie" Sherbrooke Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave (born 8 December 1940) is a British peer and businessman.

Waldegrave is the son of the 12th Earl Waldegrave

Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave

Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave KG GCVO TD , known as Viscount Chewton from 1933 to 1936, was a British peer and agriculturist....

 and was educated at Eton

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. In 1986, he married Mary Furness (a journalist of the Evening Standard

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, philosophy

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 lecturer and former girlfriend of Martin Amis

Martin Amis

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), a daughter of Sir Robert Furness. Waldegrave inherited his father's titles in 1995 and he and his wife divorced a year later after having two sons:

• Edward Robert Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton (b. 1986)
• The Hon. Robert Arthur Riversdale Waldegrave (b. 1989)

Lord Waldegrave currently runs his estate based at Priory Farm Chewton Mendip with industrial units and offices let out to various businesses upon the old cheese making site.