James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne

Charles James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne, KCVO, KStJ, FRSA, FSA (born 12 September 1939), was Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire from 1999 until 2014.

The son of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne, and Nancy Tennant, he was educated at Eton College in Berkshire.

He was further educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree (later converted to an MA) in fine arts in 1963.

Crathorne worked in the impressionist painting department of Sotheby & Co from 1963 to 1966, when he became assistant to president of the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York City, a post he held until 1969.

Since 1988 he has been a member of the Advisory Panel on Works of Art in the House of Lords and from 1997 he has been Joint Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Photography Group.

He was a member of the court of the University of Leeds from 1985 to 1997, and governor of the Queen Margaret's School, York Ltd from 1986 to 1999.

Crathorne was vice-president of the Yorkshire and the Humber branch of the Reserve Forces and Cadets Association (RFCA) since 1999, and its president from 2006 to 2009.

He was further vice-president of the RFCA in North England since 2001, president of the Cleveland and South Durham branch of the Magistrates' Association since 2003 and patron of the Tees Valley Community Foundation since 2004.

Lord Crathorne in Lord Lieutenant's uniform