Reginald Walkelyne Chandos-Pole

Reginald Walkelyne Chandos-Pole JP (4 February 1853 – 20 October 1930) was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

Early life

Chandos-Pole was born at Dalbury Lees, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire on 4 February 1853. He was the eldest son of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (1826–1873), and Lady Anna Caroline Stanhope (1832–1914). Among his ten siblings were Carolina Chandos-Pole (who married Lord Claud John Hamilton, a son of the 1st Duke of Abercorn), His paternal uncle, Henry Chandos Pole Gell, took the arms and additional surname "Gell" when he succeeded to the estate at Hopton Hall. His aunt, Charlotte Chandos-Pole, married Hon. John Yarde-Buller (a son of the 1st Baron Churston), and other aunt, Eleanor Chandos-Pole, married Vice-Admiral Henry Bagot (a son of Rt. Rev. Hon. Richard Bagot). His maternal grandparents were Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington and the former Elizabeth Williams Green.

He was educated at Eton College from 1862 to 1869, where he played cricket.

Career In 1871, he joined the Grenadier Guards before retiring in 1878. He then served as Honorary Colonel of the Derbyshire Yeomanry. Like his father and grandfather before him, he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1905.

Personal life On 7 March 1882 Chandos-Pole married Violet Katharine Beckett-Denison (1860–1883), a 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). Before her death on 18 March 1883 at age 22, they were the parents of:

Dorothy Violet Chandos-Pole (1882–1954), who married Degge Wilmot-Sitwell, fourth son of the Solicitor-General of Victoria, Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell and Mary Blanche Senior, in 1906.

After her death in 1883, he married Inez Blanche Marie Clothilde Eva Arent (1881–1941), younger daughter of Gen. Alfred Arent, former commanding general of the 11th Brandenburg Uhlans, on 26 October 1898. Together, they were the parents of two children:

Winifred Olga Chandos-Pole (b. ), who married Bernard Martin Woog de Rustem in 1927. John Walkelyne Chandos-Pole (1913–1994), who married Ilsa Jill Barstz, daughter of Emil Ernst Barstz of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1947.

Chandos-Pole died at Radbourne Hall, Derby, Derbyshire on 20 October 1930, and was buried at St Andrews Churchyard in Radbourne.