James Elles

James Elles
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 byDistrict created
Succeeded byDiane James
Personal details
Born
James Edmund Moncrieff Elles

(1949-09-03) 3 September 1949
London, England
Political partyConservative
Parent

James Edmund Moncrieff Elles (born 3 September 1949 in London) is a former Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 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.

In 2019 he published the book 'Fiction, Fact and Future: The Essence of EU Democracy' as an author under the Haus Curiosities series of The University of Chicago Press.