Personal Life
In 1964 Rees-Mogg purchased Ston Easton Park near Bath, Somerset, the former home of the Hippisley family. The house had been threatened with demolition and Rees-Mogg partially restored it. He sold the house to the Smedley family in 1978.
His youngest daughter, Annunziata Rees-Mogg (born 25 March 1979), stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the 2005 general election in Aberavon, and in Somerton and Frome at the 2010 election. His son, Jacob Rees-Mogg, stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the 1997 and 2001 general elections (in Central Fife and The Wrekin respectively), but in 2010 was elected Conservative MP for the new constituency of North East Somerset. William Rees Mog has not written his weekly Mail On Sunday column for several months.
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