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'''Alexander Frederick Clifford Darwall''' is a British landowner, hedge fund manager
== Early career ==
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== Management roles ==
In 1995, Darwall joined [[Jupiter Fund Management]]. In November 2000, [[European Opportunities Trust|Jupiter European Opportunities]] was founded and Darwall became the lead portfolio manager. Darwall remained in this role until November 2019, when Jupiter European became European Opportunities Trust PLC, and Darwall stepped down as manager of both Jupiter European and the related Jupiter European Growth investment companies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lokhandwala |first=Taa |date=2019-04-03 |title=Alex Darwall steps down as manager of Jupiter European |url=https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/funds-etfs/2019/04/03/alex-darwall-steps-down-as-manager-of-jupiter-european/
In 2019, he founded a company known as [[Devon Equity Management]], whose aim is to "achieve long term capital growth by exploiting special investment opportunities in Europe".
== Dartmoor legal dispute ==
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In 2022, he received media attention for challenging the widely held interpretation of the [[Dartmoor Commons Act 1985]] as including a public right to [[wild camping]] on the moor. Historically, wild camping, where no damage has been caused, had been presumed lawful on Dartmoor.<ref name=":0" /> In January 2023, the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] found in Darwall's favour, clarifying that there was no right to wild camp on Dartmoor without the landowner's permission; it was previously the only location in England and Wales where camping without the permission of the landowner was presumed to be legal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Right to wild camp in England lost in Dartmoor court case |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/13/dartmoor-estate-landowner-alexander-darwall-court-case-right-to-camp?CMP=share_btn_tw |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=13 January 2023 |date=13 January 2023}}</ref><ref>Darwall and Darwall -v- Dartmoor National Park Authority [2023] EWHC 35 (Ch), [https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Darwall-v-DNPA-Final-Judgment-13-Jan-23.pdf Approved Judgment] and [https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Darwall-v-Dartmoor-National-Park-Authority-Judgment-Summary.pdf Judgment summary], High Court of Justice, 13 January 2023</ref>
Following the high court decision, Darwall and other landowners struck a deal with the [[Dartmoor National Park Authority]], where they would be paid compensation in return for allowing wild camping on limited portions of their land. The deal was met with disapproval from Right to Roam campaigners.<ref name=Beetle/> On 21 January 2023, a protest was organised on Darwall's land to protest the decision, with more than 3,000 people in attendance, making it one of the largest countryside access protests since the 1930s.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wall |first1=Tom |title=Thousands march across Dartmoor to demand right to wild camp |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/21/thousands-march-across-dartmoor-to-demand-right-to-wild-camp |access-date=25 January 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=21 January 2023}}</ref> The park authority subsequently announced that it intended to appeal the High Court’s decision
Local residents also raised concerns that Darwall's release of pheasants on his Dartmoor estate was leading to the endangerment of ecological woodland which is habitat for the [[Blue Ground Beetle]], found in only 15 sites across England and Wales.<ref name=Beetle/>
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[[Category:UK Independence Party donors]]
[[Category:1963 births]]
[[Category:20th-century British landowners]]
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