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Chelmsford is a city in Essex, England.

Wilfred Thesiger British military officer, explorer, and writer.

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, also known by his Arabic name Mubarak bin London was a British military officer, explorer, and writer.

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford British politician

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, PC, QC, FRS was a British jurist and Conservative politician. He was twice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

Viscount 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, 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, the lawyer and Conservative Sir Frederic Thesiger, who twice served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. As of 2010 the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1999.

Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne British businessman and baron

Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 2nd Baronet, DL was a Welsh industrialist and a member of the prominent Guest family.

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford Governor of New South Wales; Governor of Queensland; Viceroy of India

Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, was a British statesman who served as Governor of Queensland from 1905 to 1909, Governor of New South Wales from 1909 to 1913, and Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921, where he was responsible for the creation of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms. After serving a short time as First Lord of the Admiralty in the government of Ramsay MacDonald, he was appointed the Agent-General for New South Wales by the government of Jack Lang before his retirement.

Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford British Army general

Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was a British imperial general who came to prominence during the Anglo-Zulu War, when an expeditionary force under his command suffered one of the severest defeats in battle against native tribesmen in the history of the British Empire at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879. He went on to defeat the Zulu Kingdom at the subsequent Battle of Ulundi.

Frederic Thesiger may refer to:

Ernest Thesiger Actor

Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE was an English stage and film actor. He is noted for his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's film, Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

Alfred Henry Thesiger, styled The Hon. Alfred Thesiger from 1858 to 1877 and The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Thesiger from 1877, was a British lawyer and judge.

The following lists events that happened during 1905 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Eric Richard Thesiger DSO, TD, styled The Honourable from 1878, was a British soldier and page to Queen Victoria.

The Hon. Sir Gerald Alfred Thesiger MBE was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales of the Queen's Bench Division between 1958 and 1978.

George Thesiger British First World War general

Major-General George Handcock Thesiger was a senior officer in the British Army during the First World War who was killed in action during the Battle of Loos by German shellfire. His career had encompassed military service in Egypt, South Africa, Ireland, British India and France and had been rewarded with membership in two chivalric orders.

Events in the year 1916 in India.

Henry Gales British artist

Henry Gales (1834–1897) was an English painter, most well known for his portrait of the 1867 Derby Cabinet.

Donough Edward Foster O'Brien, 16th Baron Inchiquin was the holder of a hereditary peerage in the Peerage of Ireland, as well as Chief of the Name of O'Brien and Prince of Thomond in the Gaelic Irish nobility.

Frederick (given name) male given name

Frederick is a masculine given name meaning "peaceful ruler". It is the English form of the German name Friedrich. Its meaning is derived from the Germanic word elements frid, or peace, and ric, meaning "ruler" or "power".

Honourable Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, DSO was a British officer and diplomat, who was British Minister in Ethiopia from 1909 to 1919.