He is an English Conservative politician and environmental journalist, who is the Member of Parliament for Richmond Park.

Goldsmith first gained public recognition in the mid-1990s as the middle child of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart and the late financier Sir James Goldsmith. From 1998 to 2007, he was editor of The Ecologist magazine. During this time, he became a London campaigner and commentator on environmental issues. Goldsmith became a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate in 2005.That same year, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Conservative Quality of Life Policy Group, co-authoring its report published in 2007. He was placed on the party's "A-List" of prospective parliamentary candidates by David Cameron, the Leader of the Opposition, in 2006.Through an open primary in March 2007, Goldsmith was chosen to contest the constituency of Richmond Park against the incumbent Liberal Democrats.In the 2010 general election, Goldsmith won the seat with a majority of 4,091 votes over the Liberal Democrat Susan Kramer.

Born at Westminster Hospital in London, Goldsmith is the middle child of Sir James Goldsmith and his third wife, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. Goldsmith was raised at Ormeley Lodge in Ham with his siblings, Jemima and Ben. He has five paternal half-siblings, and is also half-brother to Robin and India Jane Birley, his mother’s children from her first marriage. His maternal great-grandfather was the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, the well-known Ulster Unionist politician and descendant of Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822; later the 2nd Lord Londonderry).

Goldsmith was married for ten years to Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley, with whom he has two daughters and a son. The couple wed on 5 June 1999 in a ceremony at St Simon Zelotes church in Knightsbridge, which was followed by a dance at Goldsmith's childhood home, Ormeley Lodge. Goldsmith and Sheherazade separated in April 2009. Sheherazade filed for divorce four days after the 2010 elections on the grounds of her husband's adultery, which was admitted by Goldsmith; the couple were divorced on 10 May 2010.

Goldsmith is a poker enthusiast, which he plays regularly with family friends. He claims to mostly wear recycled Savile Row suits that once belonged to his late father. Goldsmith was featured in Vanity Fair's 67th Annual International Best-Dressed List.

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