Bruce Chichester

Sir Alexander Palmer Bruce Chichester, 2nd Baronet (born December 24, 1842 in Malta , † January 25, 1881 in Arlington Court ) was a British nobleman .

Origin and youth

Bruce Chichester came from a line of the Chichester family , an old family of gentry from Devon . He was the only son of Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet and his wife, Caroline Thistlethwayte . His father died in 1851, whereupon the young Bruce became the heir to the title of Baronet , of Arlington Court in the County of Devon, and the extensive family estates. Young Bruce attended Harrow School .

The middle section of the stables built by Chichester in Arlington

Life as a country nobleman, illness and death

After Chichester came of age in 1863, he took over the management of the family estates. Like his father, he saw himself as a landowner responsible for his tenants. He served in 1868 as High Sheriff of Devon and also as captain of the Yeomanry of North Devon. The income from his property enabled him to live a luxurious life. He had the family home Arlington Court rebuilt and refurbished some of the rooms. Chichester often invited other members of the gentry to hunting parties or dances in Arlington, which became a center of social life in the area. Chichester was also an avid cricketer . As a class-conscious country nobleman, he dealt intensively with the history of his family, which he traced back to the Norman conquest . He published the results of his work in a book in 1871. Chichester owned two sailing yachts, first the schooner Zoe and later the two-masted schooner Erminia . With these he made several trips, including 1869 and from 1877 to 1878 with his family two trips of several months through the Mediterranean. During his second trip he fell ill with Malta fever in late 1877 , from which he never recovered. He returned to Arlington and died at the age of 38 in early 1881 of complications from a cold. He was buried in Woking .

Family and inheritance

Chichester had married on February 9, 1865 in Cranbury Rosalie Chamberlayne (1843-1908), a daughter of Thomas Chamberlayne from Cranbury Park in Hampshire . With her he had a daughter:

• Rosalie Chichester (1865-1949)

After his death, his daughter Rosalie became the heir to his now heavily debt-burdened estates, while the title of baronet expired. His wife took over the administration of the estate and in 1883 married Sir Arthur Chichester, 8th Baronet of Youlston , a distant cousin of her husband. Rosalie Chichester held the memory of her father in high honor.

Morte Point on the north Devon coast. Bruce Chichester's daughter Rosalie bequeathed this stretch of coast to the National Trust in 1909 in memory of her father.

Works

• History of the family of Chichester, from AD 1086-1870; including the descents of the various branches settled at Raleigh, Youlston, Arlington, Widworthy, Calverleigh Hall, and elsewhere in Devonshire; also of the Chichesters, Marquesses of Donegal, and Barons Templemore . Hotten, London 1871

literature

• National Trust (Ed.): Arlington Court and the National Trust Carriage Museum . Swindon, National Trust 2009, ISBN 978-1-84359-352-2

Web links

• National Trust: Sir Bruce Chichester

Individual evidence

1. ^ Devon Historic Society: Chichester, Miss Rosalie Caroline. Retrieved May 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage . Burke's Peerage, London 1868, p. 235.
3. ^ National Trust (ed.): Arlington Court and the National Trust Carriage Museum . Swindon, National Trust 2009, ISBN 978-1-84359-352-2 , p. 8.
4. ^ National Trust: Lady Chichester. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ National Trust (ed.): Arlington Court and the National Trust Carriage Museum . Swindon, National Trust 2009, ISBN 978-1-84359-352-2 , p. 8.

predecessor	title	successor
John Chichester	Baronet, of Arlington Court 1851-1881	Title expired