Lord John Ludford Chichester (November 1811 – 22 April 1873), was an

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Member of Parliament. Chichester was the sixth son of George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, and Anna May, daughter of Sir Edward May, 2nd Baronet.

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, Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall, and Lord Arthur Chichester were among his brothers.thepeerage.com Lord John Ludford Chichester
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in 1845, a seat he held until 1852. He spoke once in the

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, in 1850, where he protested to the speaker that he and several other MP's had missed a vote because the bell in the room in which they were waiting was broken. Chichester married Caroline Bevan, daughter of Henry Bevan, in 1844. He died in April 1873, aged 61, at Cambridge House,

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and is buried at

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. His wife survived him by ten years and died in December 1883.

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1811 births 1873 deaths Younger sons of marquesses

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