Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore

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

Early life Chichester was born in Westminster, 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).

He was educated in England at Harrow School from 1808 to 1813 before matriculating at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1815. before becoming representative for County Wexford in 1830.

The following year, on the occasion of the coronation of William IV, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Templemore, of Templemore in the County of Donegal ("Templemore" refers to the civil parish in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland). He was also made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber in 1835, and in 1837 succeeded this appointment as a Lord in Waiting. Hon. Caroline Georgiana Chichester (d. 1892), who married Sir Charles Lennox Peel, son of Laurence Peel 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, Kent, and was buried at nearby Sundridge. His wife outlived him by thirty-five years, dying in 1872.