Baron Gisborough, of

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in the County of York, is a title in the

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. The title was created in 1917 for the

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politician

Richard Chaloner Richard Chaloner is the name of: *Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (1856–1938), British soldier and politician *Richard Chaloner, 3r ...

(1856–1938), who had previously represented Westbury (also known as Wiltshire West) and Abercromby in the

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. Born Richard Long, the son of

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, he had assumed by royal licence the surname of Chaloner in lieu of Long in 1881, as a condition of inheriting the

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estate in North Yorkshire, and

Gisborough Hall Gisborough Hall is a 19th-century mansion house, now a hotel, at Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The manor of Gisborough and the site of the dissolved Priory of Gisborough were acquired after the ...

, from his maternal great-uncle, Admiral Thomas Chaloner. The latter was a descendant through his mother of

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, who founded

Gisborough Priory Gisborough Priory is a ruined Augustinian priory in Guisborough in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by the Norman feudal magnate Robert de Brus, an ancestor of the Sc ...

in 1119. Lord Gisborough's eldest son and heir, Richard Godolphin Hume Long Chaloner, was accidentally killed in France in 1917 while guarding German prisoners of war, and is buried at

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. Lord Gisborough was therefore succeeded by his second son, the second Baron. , the title is held by the latter's son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1951. He notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Cleveland from 1981 to 1996. The title remains strongly linked with the town of

. The prominent Conservative politician

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Gover ...

(1854–1924) was the elder brother of the first Baron.

Barons Gisborough (1917)

* Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (1856–1938) * Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough (1889–1951) * (Thomas) Richard John Long Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (b. 1927) The

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is the present holder's son, the Hon. (Thomas) Peregrine Long Chaloner (b. 1961).

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* * * Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *

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Photograph in the National Portrait Gallery
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Barons Gisborough (1917)

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