CHICHESTER, Henry Thomas Pelham, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 Earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 25 Aug. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 6 dragoons 24 June 1824; lieut. Royal horse guards 28 April 1827; succeeded as 3 Earl 4 July 1826; pres. of Church Missionary Society 1835; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 22 Feb. 1841 to death; joint comr. to consider state of bishoprics in England and Wales 30 Jany. 1847; chief comr. for management of ecclesiastical estates 24 Aug. 1850 to Oct. 1878; lord lieut. of Sussex 21 Nov. 1860 to death. d. Stanmer park near Lewes 16 March 1886. Sunday at home (1885), 296–300, portrait.
CHICHESTER, Sir Alexander Palmer Bruce, 2 Baronet. b. Malta 24 Dec. 1842; succeeded 10 Dec. 1851; sheriff of Devon 1868. d. Arlington court, Barnstaple 25 Jany. 1881.
CHICHESTER, Frederick Richard, called by courtesy, Earl of Belfast (younger son of 3 Marquis of Donegall 1797–1883). b. 25 Nov. 1827; ed. at Eton; pres. of Classical harmonist’s society established at Belfast 1852; author of Two generations or birth parentage and education, a novel 2 vols. 1851; Poets and poetry of the nineteenth century, a course of lectures 1852. d. Naples 15 Feb. 1853.
CHICHESTER, John Ludford (6 son of 2 Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844). b. 12 Nov. 1811; M.P. for Belfast 20 Aug. 1845 to 1 July 1852. d. Cambridge house, Twickenham 22 April 1873.
CHICHESTER, Sir John Palmer Bruce, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Palmer Bruce Chichester 1769–1823, colonel of Royal Cardigan rifle corps). b. 1794; served in the navy 1810–20; M.P. for Barnstaple 3 May 1831 to 23 June 1841; created baronet 7 Sep. 1840. d. 20 Eaton sq. London 10 Dec. 1851.
CHIFNEY, Samuel (younger son of Samuel Chifney, jockey 1753–1807). b. 1786; rode for Prince of Wales at Stockbridge races 1802; won the Oaks on Briseis 1807, on Sorcery 1811, on Landscape 1816, on Shoveller 1819 and on Wings 1825; won the Derby on Sam a horse called after himself 1818 and on Sailor 1820; won the One thousand guineas on Extempore 1843; a trainer at Newmarket to 1843; had a stud of his own there 1843–51. d. Hove, Brighton 29 Aug. 1854. Sporting Review vii, 416 (1842), portrait, xxxii, 231–5, 312–6 (1854) xxxiii, 31–5, 89–95, 162–7, 231–6, 309–14, 401–6 (1855) xxxiv, 5–10, 75–8 (1855).
CHIFNEY, William (brother of the preceding). b. Newmarket 1784; a trainer near Newmarket; owner with his brother of a small stud of horses at Newmarket to June 1834; publicly thrashed on 31 May 1803 Lieut. col. George Leigh, an equerry to Prince of Wales, for abusing his father, imprisoned for the assault 6 months at Cambridge. d. Pancras sq. Pancras road, London 14 Oct. 1862. H. Corbett’s Tales of sporting life (1864) 176–82.
CHILD-VILLIERS, Frederick William (3 son of 5 Earl of Jersey 1773–1859). b. Berkeley sq. London 20 July 1815; ed. at Eton; lieut. Coldstream Guards 1838 to 24 May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Weymouth 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 July 1852; lieut. col. commandant of 5 Middlesex militia 16 May 1853 to 4 May 1855; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1869. d. Berkeley sq. 24 May 1871.
CHILDE, Henry Langdon. b. 1782; made his first magic lantern 1797; painted on glass and produced slides illustrating natural history and astronomy; invented dissolving views 1807 which he exhibited at Adelphi theatre, London 1818 and at Her Majesty’s theatre 1837–40; connected with the Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. from date of opening 6 Aug. 1838 for nearly 20 years; invented the chromatrope, a lantern slide by which beautiful effects of colour were produced. d. Mostyn road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1874.
CHILDE, James Warren. Landscape and Miniature painter in London 1798 to death; most of his exhibited works were portraits of popular actors and actresses; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 16 at Suffolk st. gallery 1798–1853. d. 27 Scarsdale villas, Kensington, London 19 Sep. 1862 aged 82.