Harry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore

The Right Honourable
The Lord Templemore
DL, JP
Born
Harry Spencer Chichester

(1821-06-14)14 June 1821
Died10 June 1906(1906-06-10) (aged 84)
EducationEton College
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Spouses
Laura Caroline Jane Paget
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(m. 1842; died 1871)​
Lady Emily Cowper
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(m. 1873; died 1906)​
Children3
Parent(s)Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore
Lady Augusta Paget

Harry Spencer Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore DL, JP (14 June 1821 – 10 June 1906), styled The Honourable Harry Chichester between 1831 and 1837, was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Early life and career

Chichester was the eldest son of Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore and Lady Augusta Paget, daughter of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded in the barony on the death of his father on 26 September 1837.[1]

Career

During his military service he gained the rank of Honorary Colonel for the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. He served as a deputy lieutenant of County Wexford and was also a justice of the peace for that county.[1]

Personal life

Photograph of his son, Arthur, 1911.

On 3 August 1842, Lord Templemore married, his first cousin once removed, Laura Caroline Jane Paget, daughter of Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane (a daughter of 10th Earl of Westmorland). She was the first cousin of his mother Augusta, Baroness Templemore. In the 1850s, they lived at 2 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair.[2] Before her death, they had two children:[1]

  • Arthur Henry Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore (1854–1924), who married Evelyn Stracey, daughter of Rev. William James Stracey-Clitherow, in 1879. After her death, he married Alice Elizabeth Dawkins, daughter of Clinton George Augustus Dawkins, in 1885.[1]
  • The Hon. Flora Augusta Chichester (1856–1974), who died unmarried.[1]

After his first wife's death in December 1871 he married secondly Lady Victoria Elizabeth Ashley, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Emily Cowper (a daughter of 5th Earl Cowper), on 8 January 1873 at St George's, Hanover Square, London. They had one daughter:[1]

  • The Hon. Hilda Caroline Chichester (1875–1961), who married Sir Victor George Corkran.[1]

Lord Templemore died in June 1906, aged 84, and was succeeded by his only son, Arthur. The widowed Lady Templemore lived at 9 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair.[3] She died in February 1927.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1160.
  2. ^ "Upper Brook Street: North Side Pages 200-210 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings). Originally published by London County Council, London, 1980". British History Online. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Grosvenor Street: North Side Pages 35-44 Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings)". British History Online. LCC, 1980. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Templemore
1837–1906 		Succeeded by