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

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peer.

Career

Chichester was the eldest son of

Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore (8 January 1797 – 26 September 1837) was a British soldier, politician and courtier. Chichester was born in Westminster, London, the eldest son of Lord Spencer Chichester, third son of Arthur Chichester, ...

and Lady Augusta Paget, daughter of Field Marshal

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. He was educated at

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and

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. He succeeded in the barony on the death of his father on 26 September 1837.thepeerage.com Harry Spencer Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore
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and was also a

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for that county.

Personal life

Lord Templemore married firstly his first cousin once removed, Laura Caroline Jane Paget, daughter of Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane, on 3 August 1842. She was the first cousin of his mother Augusta, Baroness Templemore. They had two children: Arthur Henry Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore and the Honourable Flora Augusta Chichester (1856–1974), who died unmarried. In the 1850s, they lived at 2

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. After his first wife's death in December 1871 he married secondly Lady Victoria Elizabeth Ashley, daughter of

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and Lady Emily Caroline Catherine Frances Cowper, on 8 January 1873 at

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. They had one daughter, the Honourable Hilda Caroline Chichester (1875–1961), wife of Sir Victor George Corkran. 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. She died in February 1927.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Templemore, Harry Chichester, 2nd Baron 1821 births 1906 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Eldest sons of British hereditary barons

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