He was educated at Milton Abbey School in Dorset, the University of Nottingham, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Baron de Saumarez, of the Island of Guernsey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created on 15 September 1831 for the naval commander Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 1st Baronet.
Shrubland Park was sold by the present Lord de Saumarez in 2006 after the death of his mother.
The Saumarez Manor estate in Guernsey belongs to a senior line of the family from which the Barons de Saumarez are descended: Matthew de Sausmarez (1718–1778), father of the first baron, was the younger brother of John (1706–1774), of Sausmarez Manor.
[3] As he has no male issue, the heir presumptive to the barony is his younger twin brother, Hon.