Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore

Arthur Henry Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore (16 September 1854 – 28 September 1924), styled The Honourable Arthur Chichester between 1854 and 1906, was an Anglo-Irish peer.

Early life Chichester was born on 16 September 1854. He was the son of Harry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore, and his first wife, Laura Caroline Jane Paget. After his mother's death in December 1871, his father married Lady Victoria Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lady Emily Cowper (a daughter of 5th Earl Cowper), in 1873. From his father's second marriage, he had a younger half-sister, the Hon. Hilda Caroline Chichester, who married Sir Victor George Corkran. His maternal grandparents were Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane (a daughter of 10th Earl of Westmorland). His mother Laura was a first cousin of his paternal grandmother Lady Augusta.

Upon the death of his father on 10 June 1906, he succeeded as 3rd Baron Templemore, of Templemore in County Donegal in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of County Wexford.

Personal life On 14 August 1879, Chichester married Evelyn Stracey, a daughter of the Rev. William James Stracey-Clitherow and Maria Diana ( Bourchier) Stracey. Before her death on 3 December 1883, they were the parents of: who married Hon. Clare Meriel Wingfield, daughter of Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, and Lady Julia Coke (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Leicester), in 1911. Hon. Richard Cecil Frederick Chichester (1889–1915), who died unmarried in Serbia at age 26. His widow, the dowager Lady Templemore, died on 30 September 1954.

Descendants Through his son Arthur, he was a grandfather of Dermot Chichester (1916–2007), who became the 5th Baron Templemore in 1953, and the 7th Marquess of Donegall (in the Peerage of Ireland) in 1975 upon the death of his distant cousin, Edward Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegall, being a descendant of the 1st Baron Templemore, a grandson of the 1st Marquess of Donegall.