- Born in Hammersmith, Jacob Rees-Mogg was educated at the Dragon and Eton, and later Trinity College, Oxford, where he became president of the Oxford University Conservative Association.
- Having worked for years in finance, he co-founded investment company Somerset Capital Management, currently managing $7.6bn (£5.5bn).
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- Jacob Rees-Mogg first became interested in the stock market aged 10, when his father invested £50 for him. He studied how his shares were performing and by 12 was attending shareholder meetings, quizzing the chairman and voting against proposals he thought were a bad idea.
- It was even rumoured that he’d made so much money that he paid for his own school fees. Disappointingly, this is fake news.
- He is married to Helena de Chair, daughter of the late author Somerset de Chair and Lady Juliet Tadgell, who is set to inherit an estimated £45m from her mother. Their combined fortunes could then total as much as £100m–£150m.
- He is a practising Catholic and has six children. The nanny, Veronica, who looked after him and his siblings as a child now works for his family. She has been with the Rees-Moggs for over 50 years.
- He has never changed a nappy: 'I don’t think Nanny would approve, because I’m sure she’d think I wouldn’t do it properly.'
- Jacob proposed to Helena beneath one of the six Van Dycks at her mother’s house.
- He entered politics in 1997 and, while canvassing for the seat in Fife, was driven around in a Mercedes by his nanny. ‘I was going to take my Bentley, but she wisely said that this would be seen as ostentatious and I should take Mummy’s Mercedes instead.’ He was elected MP for North East Somerset in 2010.
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- Georgia Toffolo, aka Toff from Made in Chelsea, has referred to him as a ‘sex god’ and said: ‘The human mind can be sexy. He’s so clever, I just love him.’
- He’s a filibuster fan and his tactics to delay bills being passed in Parliament include covering subjects like the Battle of Agincourt, the quality of eggs in Somerset and the Empress of Blandings (the pig owned by Lord Emsworth in PG Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle novels).
- He holds the record for uttering the longest word during Parliamentary proceedings – ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ (which means ‘the act of estimating something as worthless’).
- His first tweet was in Latin: ‘Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis’ (‘Times change, and we change with them’).
