Sir Edward Chichester, 9th Baronet

Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, 9th Baronet CB CMG ADC (20 November 1849 – 17 September 1906), was an English Rear Admiral and baronet.

Early life Chichester was born in Barnstaple on 20 November 1849 and was baptised on 24 January 1850 at Sherwell, Devon. He was the second of nine sons of Sir Arthur Chichester, 8th Baronet and Mary Nicholetts, a daughter of John Nicholetts of South Petherton, Somerset.

His paternal grandparents were Sir Arthur Chichester, 7th Baronet and Charlotte Hamlyn-Williams (a daughter of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 2nd Baronet). He was Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria and Edward VII between 1899 and 1902. He fought in the Second Boer War between 1900 and 1901. He was Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Establishment between 1904 and 1906 at Gibraltar.

Catherina Edina Chichester (1881–1963), who married Maj. Charles Venables Beresford, son of Judge Cecil Hugh Wriothesley Beresford and Caroline Felice Octavie White, in 1905. he married Phyllis Dorothy Compton, daughter of Henry Francis Compton and Dorothy Ann Musgrave, in 1915. They divorced in 1923 and he married Hon. Moira Faith Lilian ( de Yarburgh-Bateson) Fullerton, daughter of Robert de Yarburgh-Bateson, 3rd Baron Deramore and Lucy Caroline Fife, in 1924. They divorced in 1935 and he married Gladys Ethel Fordham, daughter of John Fordham, in 1935. His widow died on 24 July 1937.