(Thomas) Richard John Long Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (born 1 July 1927), is a British peer. Chaloner was born at Hurworth Old Hall,

Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...

, the son of

Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough (6 May 1889 – 11 February 1951) was an England, English landowner, soldier and Peerage of England, peer. Life The second son of Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborou ...

, and Esther Hall. He succeeded his father as

Baron Gisborough Baron Gisborough, of Cleveland in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the Conservative politician Richard Chaloner, who had previously represented Westbury (also known as Wiltshire West ...

in 1951. In 1967 he was appointed to the Board of Universal Television Yorkshire. In 1973, he was appointed deputy lieutenant of the

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and in 1981 he became

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. Lord Gisborough was the only member of the House of Lords to be in place for both the accession of

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and her successor

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Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (Thomas) Richard John Long Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (born 1 July 1927), is a British peer. Chaloner was born at Hurworth Old Hall, Darlington, the son of Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough, and Esther Hall. He succeeded his father as Ba ...

Lord-Lieutenants of North Yorkshire People from Guisborough Gisborough

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