Lord John Ludford Chichester (November 1811 – 22 April 1873), was an

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. Chichester was the sixth son of

George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall George Augustus Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall KP, PC (Ire) (14 August 1769 – 5 October 1844), styled Viscount Chichester until 1791 and Earl of Belfast from 1791 to 1799, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician. He was born into ...

, and Anna May, daughter of Sir Edward May, 2nd Baronet.

George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (10 February 1797 – 20 October 1883), styled Viscount Chichester until 1799 and Earl of Belfast between 1799 and 1844, was an Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician. He served as V ...

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St Andrews's Church, Ham, grave of Lord John Ludford

Chichester was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for

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in 1845, a seat he held until 1852. He spoke once in the

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, in 1850, where he protested to the speaker that he and several other MP's had missed a vote because the bell in the room in which they were waiting was broken. Chichester married Caroline Bevan, daughter of Henry Bevan, in 1844. He died in April 1873, aged 61, at Cambridge House,

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and is buried at

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. His wife survived him by ten years and died in December 1883.

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1811 births 1873 deaths Younger sons of marquesses

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