He was educated at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol and Charterhouse in Godalming, where he was Head of School. William Rees-Mogg was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. He was the son of Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg (1889–1962) of Cholwell House in the parish of Cameley in Somerset, an Anglican, and his Irish American Catholic wife, Beatrice Warren, a daughter of Daniel Warren of New York. William Rees-Mogg was born in 1928 in Bristol, England. He was the father of the politicians Jacob and Annunziata Rees-Mogg. In the late 1970s, he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and in the 1980s was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and Vice-Chairman of the BBC's Board of Governors. William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 1928 – 29 December 2012) was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of The Times from 1967 to 1981.
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