Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole

Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole JP DL (10 January 1826 – 30 November 1873) was an English landowner and barrister who served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

Early life

Chandos-Pole was born at Radbourne Hall, Derby, Derbyshire on 10 January 1826. He was the eldest son of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole and Anna Maria Wilmot. His younger brother, Henry, took the arms and surname Gell when he succeeded to the estate at Hopton Hall. His sister, Charlotte, married Hon. John Yarde-Buller (a son of the 1st Baron Churston), and other sister, Eleanor, married Vice-Admiral Henry Bagot (a son of Rt. Rev. Hon. Richard Bagot).

His paternal grandparents were Mary Ware and Sacheverell Pole, who later adopted the additional surname of Chandos, in 1807. His maternal grandparents were the Rev. Edward Sacheverell Wilmot and Anne ( Chambers) Wilmot.

He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. Like his father before him, he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1867.

Chandos-Pole was part of a coaching revival which began with Capt. Hayworth, the Charles Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, and others, in 1866.

Personal life

On 13 November 1850, he married Lady Anna Caroline Stanhope (1832–1914), elder daughter of Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington and Elizabeth Williams Green. Together, they were the parents of at least eleven children, including:

Reginald Walkeline Chandos-Pole (1853–1930), who married Violet Katharine Beckett-Denison, daughter of William Beckett-Denison (a younger son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet) and Hon. Helen Duncombe (a daughter of the 2nd Baron Feversham), in 1882. After her death in 1883, he married Inez Blanche Marie Clothilde Eva Arent in 1898. and was buried at St Andrews Churchyard in Radbourne.

Descendants Through his eldest son Reginald, he was a grandfather of John Walkelyne Chandos-Pole (1913–1994), who served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1959.