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. He is also one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative. In 1977, he succeeded to his father's title.

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 Bachelor of Arts (later converted to a Master of Arts) in fine arts in 1963. Crathorne worked in the impressionist painting department of Sotheby & Co from 1963–66, when he became assistant to president of the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York City, a post he held until 1969.

In 1969, he created an independent fine art consultancy, James Dugdale & Associates, which later became James Crathorne & Associates, and has made many lecture tours to the United States. In 1981, Crathorne held a lecture series about "Aspects of England" at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and in 1988, he made a lecture tour for the bicentenary of Australia, talking about Captain James Cook. From 1979-93, he was director of Blakeney Hotels Ltd, from 1988-99 of Woodhouse Securities Ltd, and from 2000-01 of Hand Picked Hotels. Between 1993-98, he was also director of Cliveden plc, and from 1999 of its successor, Cliveden Ltd.

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