Sir Arthur Chichester, 8th Baronet

Chichester was born in Sherwell on 4 October 1822. He was a son of Sir Arthur Chichester, 7th Baronet (1790–1842), who served as High Sheriff of Devon, and Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams (–1834). Among his siblings were sisters Charlotte Elizabeth Chichester, who married the Rev. Richard John Beadon in 1848, and Blanche Chichester, who married John Toller Nicholetts in 1855. His paternal grandparents were John Chichester (a son of the Rev. William Chichester, Rector of Georgeham and Shirwell, himself the youngest son of Sir John Chichester, 4th Baronet) and Elizabeth Cory. His maternal grandparents were Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet and Diana Anne Whittaker (a daughter of Abraham Whittaker). His great-aunt, Marianne Whittaker, married Sir Thomas Gooch, 5th Baronet. He was educated at Eton College. ==Career==

Chichester was gazetted a Cornet in the 7th Hussars on 18 June 1841. On 15 January 1847, he was made a Captain in the 7th Hussars, shortly before he retired in 1848. He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Devon and as a Justice of the Peace for Devon. He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in 1862 in the service of the Royal North Devon Yeomanry. ==Personal life==

On 20 November 1847 in Somersetshire, Chichester was married to Mary Nicholetts (1829–1879), eldest daughter of John Nicholetts of South Petherton, Somerset. Before her death at Youlston on 28 June 1879, they were the parents of fourteen children, including: • Rev. Arthur Chichester (1848–1898), who married Emily Constance Sargent in 1869. • Sir Edward Chichester, 9th Baronet (1849–1906), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy; he married Catharina Emma Whyte, a daughter of Cmdr. Robert Charles Whyte of Instow, North Devon in 1880. • Beatrice Chichester (1850–1931), who married Charles Chichester, son of Robert Chichester and Clarentina Mason, in 1870. Sir Arthur died on 13 July 1898. As his eldest son predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son, Edward. His widow, Rosalie, died on 22 August 1908. Descendants Through his seventh son, the Rev. Charles Chichester, he was a grandfather of pioneering yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester (1901–1972), and great-grandfather of Giles Chichester (b. 1946), the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar. ==References==