Joshua Dugdale

Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale FRSA (born 20 September 1974[1][2]) is a British farmer, estate owner and documentary film-maker.

Joshua Dugdale
Born
Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale

(1974-09-20) 20 September 1974
Blyth Hall, Warwickshire, UK
Occupation(s)Film director, Estate manager
Years activesince 2000
SpouseDiana Redvers

Education and personal life

He attended Eton College, studied economics at the University of Manchester, and law at City, University of London.[3] He has two children, Lily and Salvador, with author Sasha Norris, and two further children, Ferdinand and Francis, with Diana Redvers, who he married in 2009. In 2016 he signed an open letter to the Times against Brexit on behalf of British business leaders, and in 2018 he became patron of the West Berkshire Mencap.[4][5]

Career

Documentary film

His 2002 film for the BBC, LAPD Blues, won the highest ratings of that year for a BBC current affairs documentary.

In 2005–2008 he made a three-year biopic of the fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, The Unwinking Gaze. In this film he recorded the Dalai Lama as a leader of the Tibetan people, rather than portraying him as spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism as is done customarily. The documentary was awarded Mammoth Best Documentary in 2008 as well as the runner up in the Best Documentary section for the Foreign Press Association in 2008. The Guardian suggested that it could force China into a more civil and humanitarian stance towards Tibet.

Wasing estate

Dugdale took over management of the Wasing estate in Berkshire (which includes Wasing Place and Wasing Park) from his grandparents in 2008.[6][7] Its manor is centred on a manor house which was purchased in 1759 by the London nautical publisher John Mount, a maternal ancestor of Dugdale's. Mount built the mansion Wasing Place, completed in 1770, which became the home of his descendants the MPs, William Mount, William George Mount and Sir William Mount. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1945.[8]

Under Dugdale Wasing Park hosted Glade Festival after its transfer from a stage at Glastonbury Festival.[9]

In 2015 he concluded a £3 million restoration project, and opened the estate up to alternative events.[10] Later that year, sixty pheasants were killed with catapults and beheaded on the estate.[11]

In 2016 the annual Mizuno Endure 24 race held on the estate was disrupted when hundreds of runners reported a "mystery illness" which they had contracted on site.[12]

In 2018 Dugdale submitted plans to build further visitor facilities and a farm shop at the Wasing estate, claiming 30 jobs would be created.[13]

On the death of Dugdale's mother, Lady Cecilia Dugdale, in 2019 Dugdale inherited the estate in full after many years of managing and farming it. He is the 7th generation of his maternal family (the Mount baronets) to do so.[14][15]

In 2020 Dugdale co-founded the Medicine Festival on the estate.[16]

Family

Dugdale is the son of former Aston Villa chairman Sir William Dugdale, 2nd Baronet of Blyth Hall, a descendant of the Noble House of Stratford, and his wife, Cecilia (Cylla) Mary, daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet of Wasing Place in Berkshire. Dugdale is also a cousin of former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron.[17][18]

Filmography
Film Year Remark
Pepe and his Cuban Heels1996On life in Cuba
LAPD Blues2002Reporter
The Unwinking Gaze2008Director/producer; biography of Tenzin Gyatso

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, editor: Dugdale Baronets of Merevale and Blyth in the County of Warwick, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999.
  2. Companies House, People: Thomas Joshua Stratford Dugdale, UK, accessed 2021
  3. Pitcher, Claire Joshua Dugdale on restoration projects at Wasing Estate and his love for filmmaking, Berkshire Life, 14 September 2015
  4. Sheffield, Hazel EU referendum letter: 1,280 business leaders sign letter backing Remain The Independent, 22 June 2016
  5. Cooper, Dan Film-maker becomes West Berkshire Mencap patron, Newbury Today, 15 September 2018
  6. York, Melissa Canvas & Stone: We ask five entrepreneurs who inherited country estates how they managed to turn their crumbling piles into profitable businesses, City AM, 25 June 2016
  7. Pitcher, Claire Joshua Dugdale on restoration projects at Wasing Estate and his love for filmmaking, Berkshire Life, 14 September 2015
  8. "The thirty landowners who own half a county". Who owns England?.
  9. Usborne, Simon Poshstock generation: The entrepreneurial aristocrats who are creating a whole new summer season of festivals, The Independent, 23 October 2011
  10. Meredith, Jane Aldermaston estate's £3m/eight year restoration project, Newbury Today, 6 July 2015
  11. Rought, Hannah Sixty pheasants slaughtered in gruesome attack, Shooting UK, 22 October 2015
  12. Fort, Linda Mizuno Endure 24 race: scores of runners contract mystery illness, Get Reading, 15 June 2016
  13. Tomas, Fiona 30 new jobs in plans for Wasing Park, Newbury Today, 27 November 2018
  14. Telegraph Obituaries Cylla, Lady Dugdale, accomplished painter, amateur pilot and aunt of David Cameron – obituary, The Telegraph, 4 January 2019
  15. The Wasing Etate, Heritage, accessed 2021
  16. Garvey, John. Wasing Estate all set for a Taste of Medicine Festival, Newbury Today, 26 May 2020
  17. The Daily Telegraph
  18. Times Obituaries, Cylla, Lady Dugdale obituary, The Times, 21 January 2019
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