Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ...

John Buxton Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester (12 June 1912 – 21 February 1944), styled The Honourable John Pelham until 1926, was a British diplomat. Pelham was the younger son of

Jocelyn Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester Jocelyn Brudenell Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester, OBE (21 May 1871 – 14 November 1926) was a British nobleman. The elder son of Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester, and Alice, the daughter of 1st Baron Wolverton, he was educated at Eton. In ...

, and Ruth Buxton, daughter of Francis Buxton. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He succeeded in the earldom at age fourteen in 1926 on the early death of his elder brother. A diplomat in the 1930s, he served as Honorary Attaché to Warsaw in 1931 and Washington in 1933, as Honorary Private Secretary to British High Commissioner to Canada from December 1933 to July 1934, and as 3rd Secretary and Press Attaché at The Hague in 1939. He fought in the Second World War, gaining the rank of

in the Scots Guards. He died on 21 February 1944 at age 31, killed in a road accident, while on active service.John Buxton Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester
/ref> He was buried in the churchyard of

Stanmer Church Stanmer Church is a former Anglican church in Stanmer village, on the northeastern edge of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The ancient village stands within Stanmer Park, the former private estate of the Earl of Chichester, which the Brig ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

.CWGC Casualty Record.
/ref> Lord Chichester married Ursula von Pannwitz, daughter of , in 1940. They had one daughter and a son,

John Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester John Nicholas Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester (born 14 April 1944) is a British nobleman. Chichester was born posthumously on 14 April 1944 to Ursula, Countess of Chichester; his father, John Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester, had been killed in a r ...

, who was born after his father's death in April 1944. The Countess of Chichester married as her second husband Ralph Gunning Henderson, in 1957. They were divorced in 1971. Lady Chichester died in 1989.

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