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Biographical Note
Moreton Frewen was born in England in 1853, the fifth son of Thomas Frewen, a member of the landed gentry, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1877. He emigrated to Wyoming during the cattle boom in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1881 he married Clarita Jerome, daughter of an American financier and sister to Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill. They settled on a ranch in Wyoming before returning to England, where he wrote on economic issues and became an advocate of tariff reform and bimetallism. He also became active in Irish affairs and was elected to Parliament in 1910. He died in 1924.