Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (né Long; 12 October 1856 – 23 January 1938) was a British soldier and politician. He was a

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Member of Parliament (MP) from 1895 to 1900 and 1910 to 1917, and a member of the

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from 1917 until his death in 1938.

Career

Chaloner was the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, an MP from 1859 to 1868, and younger brother of The 1st Viscount Long. His family owned Rood Ashton House in Wiltshire and had lived in the county since the end of the 14th century. Chaloner's maternal grandfather was William Dick, a member for

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from 1852 to 1880. In 1888, he assumed the surname of Chaloner by royal licence in accordance with the will of his maternal great-uncle Admiral Thomas Chaloner, who had inherited Gisborough Hall and the Gisborough estate in North Yorkshire through his mother, a descendant of

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. Chaloner was educated at Winchester College and the

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, Sandhurst, after which he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the

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on 30 January 1878. He served in the

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1879–1880, and was promoted to

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on 1 July 1881. Promotion to

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came on 1 July 1887, followed by brevet appointments as

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and lieutenant-colonel on 10 February 1894. He transferred to the Reserve of Officers, and became lieutenant-colonel in command of the 1st

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Volunteer Rifles. Following the outbreak of the

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in October 1899, many volunteer officers were commissioned as part of the

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which was created in December 1899. Chaloner was appointed in command of the 1st (Wiltshire) Company of the 1st Battalion, and left

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for

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on the SS ''Cymric'' in March 1900. Chaloner was first elected to

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for Westbury in the 1895 general election. At the next general election in

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, he was defeated by the Liberal candidate John Fuller. In the

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, Chaloner was re-elected to Parliament succeeding the Liberal MP

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in the constituency of Liverpool Abercromby. He retained this seat until 18 June 1917, when he was made Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, a post that expelled him from the Commons, thus effectively resigning from the Commons. On 23 June 1917, he was made the

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, of

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in the

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, and became a member of the

. A

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was held in Liverpool Abercromby to replace him. Lord Gisborough died in 1938 in Cleveland, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son,

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Family

In 1882, he married Margaret Brocklesby Davis (died 1941) and they had two sons and four daughters. Their elder son, Richard, died in France in 1917 while guarding German

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Arms

Notes

References

* * * * Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

External links

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Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (né Long; 12 October 1856 – 23 January 1938) was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1895 to 1900 and 1910 ...