John Nicholas Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester (born 14 April 1944) is a British nobleman. Little Durnford Manor House - geograph

Chichester was

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on 14 April 1944 to Ursula, Countess of Chichester; his father, John Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester, had been killed in a road accident in February, while on active service with the

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, so he acceded to the earldom at birth. The Countess married Ralph Gunning Henderson in 1957, but they were divorced in 1971. Chichester was educated at Stanbridge Earls School and in business as a farmer. In 1975, Chichester married June Marijke Hall, the daughter of Group Captain Edward Preston Wells. They have one daughter: *Lady Eliza Catherine Pelham (born 1983) They live at

Little Durnford Manor Little Durnford Manor is a Grade I listed country house in Durnford, Wiltshire, England, about northeast of the city of Salisbury. The current house was built in the late 17th century and remodelled for Edward Younge, a friend of Lord Pembro ...

, in

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Succession

The title passes solely in the male line, so his

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is his second cousin, Richard Anthony Henry Pelham (b. 1952), who is the grandson of Henry George Godolphin Pelham, second son of the fifth Earl.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chichester, John Pelham, 9th Earl of 1944 births Living people Earls of Chichester

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