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{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
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[[Image:1st Lord Chelmsford.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Frederic Thesiger, <br /> 1st Baron Chelmsford]]
'''Viscount Chelmsford''', of [[Chelmsford]] in the County of [[Essex]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1921 for [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|Frederic Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford]], the former [[Viceroy of India]]. The title of '''Baron Chelmsford''', of Chelmsford in the County of Essex, was created in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]] in 1858 for the first Viscount's grandfather,<ref>{{cite dictionary|title=Chelmsford, third Baron (1868–1933)|dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070638b.htm|access-date=11 July 2010|archive-date=14 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414144706/http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070638b.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> the lawyer and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford|Sir Frederic Thesiger]], who twice served as [[Lord Chancellor]] of Great Britain. Then following was the [[Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford|2nd Baron]], who gained the rank of general and was awarded {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|GCVO}}.{{sfn|Greaves|2011|pp=161–163}} {{As of|2010}} the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Frederic-Jan-Thesiger-3rd-Viscount-Chelmsford/6000000011314202013|website=geni.com|title=Frederic Jan Thesiger, 3rd Viscount Chelmsford}}</ref> in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/chelmsford1921.htm|website=cracrofts.co.uk|title=Chelmsford, Viscount (UK, 1921)}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=November 2021}}

Several other members of the Thesiger family have also gained distinction. Sir Frederic Thesiger (died 1805), uncle of the [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|first baron]], was a captain in the [[Royal Navy]] and served as [[Aide-de-Camp]] to [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Lord Nelson]] at the [[Battle of Copenhagen (1801)|Battle of Copenhagen]] in 1801. The Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger (1831–1903), second son of the first Baron, was a [[Lieutenant-General]] in the Army. His eldest son [[George Thesiger]] was a temporary Major-General in the Army and was killed in the [[First World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1770535|title=Commonwealth War Graves Commission&nbsp;– casualty details|publisher=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]|accessdate=2007-11-28}}</ref> His son [[Gerald Thesiger|Sir Gerald Thesiger]] was a Judge of the [[High Court of Justice]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Gerald Thesiger |work=[[The Times]] |date=22 April 1981 |page=14 }}</ref> The Hon. [[Alfred Thesiger]], third son of the first Baron, was a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]]. The Hon. Sir Edward Pierson Thesiger (1842–1928), fourth son of the first Baron, was Clerk-Assistant to Parliament from 1890 to 1917.<ref>{{cite dictionary|entry-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-203729|title=ukwhoswho.com|entry=Thesinger, Hon. Sir Edward (Pierson)|date=1 December 2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U203729 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref> His second son Sir [[Bertram Thesiger|Bertram Sackville Thesiger]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29751|page=9070|date=15 September 1916}}</ref> (1875–1966) was a naval commander and served as [[East Indies Station|Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station]] between 1927 and 1929 while his third son [[Ernest Thesiger]]<ref>{{Lives of WWI | id= 4396731 | name= Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger }}</ref> was an actor. The Hon. Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger (1871–1920), third son of the second Baron, was Consul-General and Minister Plenipotentiary to [[Addis Ababa]].{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} His eldest son [[Wilfred Thesiger|Sir Wilfred Thesiger]] was an explorer and travel writer.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=36464|title=Thesiger, Frederic Augustus, second Baron Chelmsford (1827–1905)|last=Laband|first=J. P. C. }}</ref> The Hon. [[Eric Thesiger]], fourth son of the second Baron, was a soldier and courtier.<ref>{{ London Gazette | issue = 33470 |page=1348 | date = 26 February 1929 }}</ref>

==Barons Chelmsford (1858)==
* [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford]] (1794–1878)
* [[Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford|Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford]] (1827–1905)
* [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford]] (1868–1933)  (created '''Viscount Chelmsford''' in 1921)

==Viscounts Chelmsford (1921)==
* [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford]] (1868–1933)
** [[Hon. Frederic Ivor Thesiger]] (1896–1917)
* [[Andrew Charles Gerald Thesiger, 2nd Viscount Chelmsford]] (1903–1970)
* [[(Frederic) Jan Thesiger, 3rd Viscount Chelmsford]] (1931–1999)
* [[Frederic Corin Piers Thesiger, 4th Viscount Chelmsford]] (born 1962)

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Chelmsford Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Gules a griffin segreant Or within an orle of roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper.
|crest = A cornucopia fesswise the horn Or the fruit Proper thereon a dove holding in the beak a sprig of laurel also Proper.
|supporters = On either side a griffin Or winged Vair
|motto = Spes Et Fortuna (Hope and Fortune) <ref>{{Cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1865}}</ref>}}

==Notes==
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===Books===
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/195 | location=[[London]] |publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|page=195}}
*{{cite book|last=Greaves|first=Adrian|title=Isandlwana: How the Zulus humbled the British Empire|year=2011|publisher=Pen & Sword Military|location=South Yorkshire|isbn=978-1-84884-532-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQxGtwAACAAJ}}
*{{cite book | editor-last= Kidd | editor-first=Charles | editor-last2= Williamson | editor-first2= David | title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage | place= New York: St Martin's Press | date= 1990 }}{{page needed|date=November 2021}}
*{{cite book | first=Charles | last=Mosley | title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage | edition=107th | place=London: Cassells | date=2002 }}{{page needed|date=November 2021}}

== External links ==
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Chelmsford, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron|volume=6|pages=23–24}}
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-andrew-thesiger | Andrew Charles Gerald Thesiger, 2nd Viscount Chelmsford }}
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-frederick-thesiger-1 | Jan Thesiger, 3rd Viscount Chelmsford }}
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-frederic-thesiger | Frederic Corin Piers Thesiger, 4th Viscount Chelmsford }}
* {{Rayment|external links=y|C|3|date=August 2018}}

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