Zac Goldsmith has been named among the best Britons by the Telegraph.

Writers for the newspaper chose their favourite Britons of 2007 as the search begins for the Morgan Stanley Great Britons of 2007.

The multi-millionaire former editor of The Ecologist magazine was selected by environment editor, Charles Clover.

Zac, Tory candidate for Richmond Park, was praised for bringing the Conservative Party up to date on 'green issues'.

He received the Beacon Prize for Philanthropy in 2003 and received Mikhail Gorbachev's Global Green Award for International Environmental Leadership in 2004.

Zac, 32, was chosen as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park at a packed open primary held in Richmond in March.

In 2005, he was invited to oversee the Conservative Party's Quality of Life Policy Group, which is rethinking the party's policies on issues ranging from transport and housing to food and farming, biodiversity and the countryside and energy policy.

His grandfathers Frank Goldsmith and the 8th Marquess of Londonderry were both Conservative politicians and in 1997 he inherited an estimated £300million fortune from his billionaire father Sir James Goldsmith.

His sister Jemima is divorced from the Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan.

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