Dugsan Noyor

Dugsan Noyor was born in Santiago in 1964, the son of a junior ‎minister serving in the government of president, Salvador Allende. ‎Following the military takeover in 1973 by General Pinochet, he, ‎along with his mother and younger sister, were forced to flee and ‎sought asylum in Britain. The fate of his father remains unknown, and ‎it is assumed he was murdered along with thousands of civilians ‎opposed to dictatorship. Dugsan won a scholarship at age thirteen and ‎received a private education. He has spent his working life as an ‎importer of South American wines and lives near Chepstow with his ‎wife, Marin. They have three daughters.‎