Frederic Thesiger

1st Lord Chelmsford

(15/7/1794 - 5/10/1878)

Started his career in the Navy

1818 Called to the bar by Hon Soc of Gray's Inn

1834 Made a Q.C

1844 Solicitor General and Knighted

1845 Attorney General

Represented in parliament, Woodstock, Abingdon and Stamford.

1/3/1858 Lord High Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Baron Chelmsford

m 9/3/1822 Anna Maria Tinling, neice of Major Peirson the defender of Jersey.

Sidney Louisa Thesiger

Frederic Augustus Thesiger

Augusta Thesiger

Sidney Maria Thesiger

Charles Wemyss Thesiger

Julia Selina Thesiger

George Cochran Thesiger

Alfred Henry Thesiger

Mary Lincoln Thesiger

Edward Peirson Thesiger

( - 15/12/1823)

(31/5/1827 - 9/4/1905)

( - 14/1/1912)

( - 16/2/1831)

(12/10/1831 -

(19/4/1833 -

(15/4/1837 -

15/7/1838 -

( - 26/5/1914)

19/12/1842 -

2nd Baron Chelmsford G.C.B, G.C.V.O

m1/7/1843 William Frederick Higgins

Unmarried

m 1/1/1867 Adria Fanny Heath

Lady in waiting to H.R.H Duchess of Teck

1868 - 77 A.D.C to Queen Victoria

1884 - 1889  lieut of the Tower of London.

Col of 2nd Life Guards

Col of the Sherwood Foresters

Served in Crimea, Indian Mutiny, and Abyssinia

Commanded forces in Kafir and Zulu Wars

Had Issue

First cousins to the Inglis Family

Frederick John Napier Thesiger

Percy Mansfield Thesiger

Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger

Harold Lumsden Thesiger

Eric Richard Thesiger

Alfred Sullivan Thesiger

(12/8/1868 - 1/4/1933)

(7/11/1869 -

(25/3/1971 -

(19/5/1872 - 3/8/1872)

(17/2/1874 -

(5/10/1880 - 1889)

3rd Baron and 1st Viscount

Capt late Royal East Kent Yeomanry

1897 - 1900 Vice Consul at Taranto

Page-of-honour to Queen Victoria

P.C.,G.C.S.I,G.C.M.G.,G.C.I.E.,G.B.E.,M.A Magdalen Col Oxford

Mentioned in despatches during 1914-18 war

1901 - 1906 Vice Consul at Belgrade

1900-1902 S.Africa

Fellow of all Souls; Warden 1932

Lived Tornashean, Strathdon, Aberdeen.

1908 - 1909 Consul at Petrograd

1915-19 Great war (despatches twice, wounded twice)

Hon. Fellow of Magdalen Coll 1917

m 6/11/1900 Katherine Francis Wallace, daughter of Alexander Falconer Wallace of Candacraig, Strathdon.

1909 - 1919 Consul General at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia

Corix de Guerre and order of the crown of Belgium

Hon D.C.L Oxford 1929

M.B.E

1st Class star of Ethiopia

D.S.O

Hon LL.D Birmingham 1927

1900-1 Served in South Africa war (mentioned in despatches)

m1 29/10/1904 Pearl Marie Coupland

Hom LL.D Edinburgh and Shefield 1932

1914-18 War (mentioned in despatches)

m2 3/10/1929 Sydney Hilda

Fellow of Winchester College 1921,Warden 1930-1932

m Kathleen Mary Cliffe Vigors from Millbrook, Bucknell, Shropshire

m3 1953 Mary Anderson

Vice President of the Royal Empire Society

Barr at Law

Capt of the 4 batt Dorsetshire Regt

Govenor of Queensland

Viceroy of India 1916-21

First Lord of the Admiralty 1924

Grand Master of the Star of India and of the Indian Empire

m 27/7/1894 Hon Frances Guest G.B.E eldest daughter of Ivor 1st Baron Wimborne