Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore (12 September 1880 – 2 October 1953), was a British soldier and politician of Anglo-Irish descent.
Early life
Chichester was the eldest son of the 3rd Baron Templemore and his wife, Evelyn (née Stracey-Clitherow). From his father's second marriage, he had a younger half-brother, Sir Gerald Chichester, a diplomat and courtier who served as Private Secretary to Queen Mary.
He was educated at Harrow and trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before being commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers as a second lieutenant on 20 January 1900.
Career
He fought in the Second Boer War, and was promoted to lieutenant on 23 February 1901, staying in South Africa until the end of the war, when he returned home on the SS Assaye in September 1902. When he was back in the United Kingdom, he returned as a regular lieutenant in his regiment in November 1902. He later served in Mauritius, India, and the British expedition to Tibet.
By now a captain, Chichester distinguished himself in the First World War with his service in France and Italy, becoming a major with the Irish Guards and winning, along with several other awards, the DSO (1918) and an OBE (1919). They had three sons:
- Major Hon. Arthur Patrick Spencer Chichester (23 March 1914 – 23 December 1942), killed in action in North Africa in World War II
- Major Hon. Dermot Richard Claud Chichester (18 April 1916 – 19 April 2007)
- Lord Desmond Clive Chichester MC (1920–2000)
Lord Templemore died in 1953 in County Wicklow. His second son succeeded him in the barony and in 1975 inherited the title of Marquess of Donegall in the Peerage of Ireland from a distant cousin.