Jeremy Clyde

Michael Thomas Jeremy Clyde (born 22 March 1941) is an English actor and musician. During the 1960s, he was one half of the folk duo Chad & Jeremy, who had little success in the UK but were an object of interest to American audiences. He has enjoyed a long television acting career, and continues to appear regularly, usually playing upper-middle class or aristocratic characters.

Early life

Clyde was born in the village of Dorney in the English county of Buckinghamshire, and is the son of Lady Elizabeth Wellesley. Through his maternal line, Clyde is the grandson of Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, and the cousin of the current Duke of Wellington, Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington.

In 1953, he participated in the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as a pageboy for his grandfather and carried his grandfather's coronet during the ceremony.

Clyde was educated at two independent schools: at Ludgrove School in the civil parish of Wokingham Without, adjoining the market town of Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire, and at Eton College in the small town of Eton, near Windsor (also in Berkshire), followed by the University of Grenoble in France.