Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore (8 January 1797 – 26 September 1837), was a British soldier, politician and courtier.

Early life

Chichester was born in

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, London, the eldest, and only surviving, son of Lord Spencer Chichester of Dunbrody Park (himself the third son of the 1st Marquess of Donegall) and Lady Anne Harriet Stewart (a daughter of the 7th Earl of Galloway).Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1160. He was educated in England at

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from 1808 to 1813 before matriculating at

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, in 1815.

Career

He entered the

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, serving with the 2nd Life Guards and eventually attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1827. In 1826 Chichester was elected Whig Member of Parliament for Milborne Port, a seat he held for four years before becoming representative for

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in 1830. The following year, on the occasion of the

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, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Templemore, of Templemore in the County of Donegal ("Templemore" refers to the

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in the city of

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). He was also made a

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in 1835, and in 1837 succeeded this appointment as a

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Personal life

On 27 July 1820, Chichester married Lady Augusta Paget, daughter of

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, and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers. Together, they had five sons and two daughters, including: * Hon. Harry Spencer Chichester (1821–1906), who married his first cousin once removed Laura Caroline Jane Paget, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane (a daughter of 10th Earl of Westmorland), in 1842. After her death, he married Lady Victoria Elizabeth Ashley-Cooper, daughter of

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, and Lady Emily Cowper (a daughter of 5th Earl Cowper), in 1873. Succeeded as 2nd Baron Templemore. * Hon. Augustus George Charles Chichester (1822–1896), a Lt.-Gen. in the

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who married Jane Townend, daughter of William Townend, in 1868. * Hon. Frederick Arthur Henry Chichester (1824–1863), Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod; he married Frances Tighe, daughter of Daniel Bunbury-Tighe and Hon. Frances Crofton (a daughter of Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet), in 1852. * Hon. Adolphus William Chichester (1825–1855), who died unmarried. * Hon. Francis Algernon James Chichester (1829–1885), a Capt. in the

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who married Elizabeth Ann Dixon, daughter of George Dixon, in 1855. After her death, he married Lady Emily Stewart, daughter of the Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, and Lady Harriett Somerset (a daughter of 6th Duke of Beaufort), in 1875. * Hon. Augusta Chichester (1831–1873), who married Robert King, 7th Earl of Kingston, son of Robert King, 6th Earl of Kingston, in 1854. After his death, she married Alfred Henry Caulfeild, son of Francis St. George Caulfeild, in 1872.G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, 2000), vol. VII, p. 301. * Hon. Caroline Georgiana Chichester (d. 1892), who married Sir

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, son of

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and Lady Jane Lennox (a daughter of the 4th Duke of Richmond), in 1848. Lord Templemore died after a short illness on 26 September 1837, aged 40, at his home of Coombe Bank,

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, and was buried at nearby Sundridge. His wife outlived him by thirty-five years, dying in 1872.

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Peers of the United Kingdom created by William IV