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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, and Ruth Buxton, daughter of

Francis Buxton Francis William Buxton (5 August 1847 – 14 November 1911) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Buxton was the son of Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet, and the grandson of the anti-slavery campaigner Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Barone ...

. He was educated at

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and

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. 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

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in 1931 and

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in 1933, as Honorary Private Secretary to

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from December 1933 to July 1934, and as 3rd Secretary and Press Attaché at

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in 1939. He fought in the

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, gaining the rank of

in the

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. 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 ...

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.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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