Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh

Who is Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh?

Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, KBE, PC, is a British UK Independence Party politician. He first came to notice as the owner of Hesketh Racing a car racing team which competed at various levels between 1972 and 1978. After the team folded, he tried to set up a British motorcycle business, Hesketh Motorcycles, which failed. He has been involved not very successfully in other business ventures. In 2006, he sold the family seat Easton Neston, at Towcester, Northamptonshire, the only surviving complete house by the English baroque architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, together with the estate, the furnishings of the house and family portraits.