Former Cabinet minister William Waldegrave will be at Bowood Hotel on November 26 to talk about his life in politics.

Lord Waldegrave will also be presenting his memoir, A Different Kind of Weather, at the Bowood Hotel Afternoon Tea event near Calne.

The former Bristol West MP, who was first elected in 1979, will talk about how his formative years at Eton, Oxford and Harvard fortified his resolve to enter the political establishment and how he rose to Cabinet level in 1981.

A fearless young Conservative politician in the 1970s and 80s; one who witnessed the fall of Heath and the triumph and eventual decline of Thatcher, Waldegrave was firmly at the heart of one of the most tumultuous periods of modern British history.

However just as his star was in the ascent, Waldegrave, the youngest of seven children, became embroiled in a scandal which tarnished his reputation but could not dampen his voracious enthusiasm for the political game.

After losing his Commons seat in 1997, he entered the House of Lords as Baron Waldegrave of North Hill and is currently Provost of Eton College, and owns a dairy farming business in Somerset.

Tickets to attend the English Afternoon Tea talk with Lord Waldegrave on November 26, starting at 3.30pm, are £17.50 per person and reservations should be booked in advance with Bowood Hotel’s Reception on 01249 822228.