Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough
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Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (12 October 1856-23 January 1938), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
Born Richard Godolphin Walmesley Long, he was the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, Member of Parliament for Wiltshire North, of Rood Ashton in Wiltshire, whose family had been landowners in that county since the end of the fourteenth century, and of Charlotte Anna, daughter of William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Dick (formerly Hume), Member of Parliament for Wicklow, of an Anglo-Irish family of County Wicklow in Ireland. His elder brother was the prominent Conservative politician Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long. In 1888 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Chaloner in lieu of his patronymic. This was in accordance with the will of his maternal great-uncle Admiral Thomas Chaloner, who had inherited the Gisborough estates through his mother, a descendant of Robert de Brus, who notably founded Gisborough Priory in 1119.
Gisborough was educated at Westminster College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst where he became Captain of the 3rd Hussars. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and in the Second Boer War. In 1895 he was elected to the House of Commons for Westbury (also known as Wiltshire West), a seat he held until 1900, and then represented Abercromby between 1910 and 1917. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gisborough, of Cleveland in the County of York.
A member of the Carlton Club, a staunch Conservative and convinced Tariff reformer he was described as a skillful sportsman fond of hunting and fishing and an expert at polo.
Lord Gisborough married Margaret Brocklesby Davis, daughter of Reverend Weston Brocklesby Davis, in 1882. They had six children, two sons and four daughters. Their eldest son Richard was accidentally killed in France in 1917 while guarding German prisoners of war, and is buried at Calais. Lord Gisborough died in January 1938, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough. Lady Gisborough died in 1941.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by George Pargiter Fuller |
Member of Parliament for Westbury 1895–1900 |
Succeeded by Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller |
| Preceded by J. E. B. Seely |
Member of Parliament for Abercromby 1910–1917 |
Succeeded by Lord Stanley |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by New Creation |
Baron Gisborough | Succeeded by Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner |
[edit] References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- www.thepeerage.com
