Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley

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Roger Richard Edward Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley (born 14 August 1930) is a British chartered accountant and peer.

The son of the 1st Baron Chorley was educated in Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in natural sciences and economics in 1953. He succeeded to his father's title in 1987.

Chorley worked for Coopers and Lybrand from 1954 to 1990, as partner from 1967 to 1989. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Press between 1974 and 1977, and of the Ordnance Survey Review Committee in 1978 and 1979. From 1980 to 1991, he was also a board member of the Royal National Theatre, and from 1981 to 1999 of the British Council. Between 1991 and 1999, he was also the latter's deputy chairman, and between 1985 and 1987 chairman of the Committee on Handling of Geographic Information. A patron of the British Mountaineering Council, Chorley was further a member of the Top Salaries Review Body from 1981 to 1991, of the Ordnance Survey Advisory Board from 1982 to 1985, and of the Natural Environment Research Council 1988 to 1994. Between 1987 and 1990, he was President of the Royal Geographical Society. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. Elected in 2001, he replaced the 7th Earl of Carnarvon.

Since 1964, Lord Chorley has been married to Ann Elizabeth Debenham; they have two sons.