# Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, comedian, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. == Early life == Brandreth was born in Wuppertal, Germany, where his father, Charles Brandreth, was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission. After moving to London with his parents at the age of three, Brandreth was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle (as it is called today) in South Kensington, Bedales School in Petersfield, Hampshire, where he met his friend Simon Cadell, and New College, Oxford, where he met Rick Stein.He was President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas term, 1969, and edited the university magazine Isis.