James Elles | |
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Member of the European Parliament for South East England Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East (1994-1999) Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (1984-1994) | |
In office 14 June 1984 – 22 May 2014 | |
Preceded by | District created |
Succeeded by | Diane James |
Personal details | |
Born | James Edmund Moncrieff Elles 3 September 1949 London, England |
Political party | Conservative |
James Edmund Moncrieff Elles (born 3 September 1949 in London) is a former Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP)[1][2] for South East England.
Elles is the son of Diana Newcombe Elles, Baroness Elles and her husband, Neil Patrick Moncrieff Elles. He served as the MEP for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire from 1984 to 1994, and following boundary changes for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East from 1994 to 1999. He then represented South East England in the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. Elles had special responsibility for the Conservative Party for the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire.
In 2019 he published the book 'Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy'[3] as an author[4] under the Haus Curiosities series of The University of Chicago Press.