Frederick Thesiger Chelmsford, baron, an English lawyer, born in London in July, 1794. His father was a collector of customs in the island of St. Vincent. In 1803 he entered the navy, and served as midshipman during the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807; but his father's West India estate having been destroyed by a volcanic eruption, he retired from the naval service to study law. He was called to the bar in 1818, became one of the most brilliant leaders of the home circuit, and in 1834 king's councillor. He was returned to parliament in March, 1840, in the conservative interest. He was solicitor general in 1844-5, attorney general 1845-6, and again in 1852, and lord chancellor from February, 1858, to June, 1859, and from June, 1866, to February, 1868. In 1858 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Chelmsford, and he is one of the leaders of the conservative party in the house of lords. He married a niece of Major Pierson, who fell at Jersey in 1781. - His elder son, Frederick Augustus, born in 1827, distinguished himself in the Crimea, India, and Abyssinia, and was appointed in 180)8 aide-de-camp to the queen and adjutant general to the forces in India.