Michael Dobbs
The Lord Dobbs | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 18 December 2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 November 1948 Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England |
| Party | Conservative |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | Christ Church, Oxford (MA) Tufts University (MA, MALD, PhD) |
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Michael John Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician, media commentator and author, best known for his House of Cards trilogy. He has been a television and radio presenter and a senior corporate executive of Saatchi & Saatchi.
The Guardian called him "Westminster's baby faced hitman." The Mail on Sunday called him "Perhaps the cleverest man in the country". The Sunday Express said he was "a man who, in Latin America, would have been shot". He is the recipient of many public awards and nominations, including being a five-time Emmy Awards nominee.