Reginald Walkelyne Chandos-Pole JP (4 February 1853 – 20 October 1930) was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
Early life
Chandos-Pole was born at Dalbury Lees, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire on 4 February 1853.Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 58. He was the eldest son of Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole (1826–1873), and Lady Anna Caroline Stanhope (1832–1914). Among his ten siblings were Carolina Chandos-Pole (who married Lord Claud John Hamilton, a son of the 1st Duke of Abercorn), and Alianore Chandos-Pole (who married Capt. Sir Wroth Lethbridge, 5th Baronet, and, after their divorce, her first cousin, Hon. Walter Yarde-Buller).
His paternal grandparents were Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole and Anna Maria Wilmot. His paternal uncle, Henry Chandos Pole Gell, took the arms and additional surname "Gell" when he succeeded to the estate at Hopton Hall.Metal tablet inside St Mary's Church, Wirksworth His aunt, Charlotte Chandos-Pole, married Hon. John Yarde-Buller (a son of the 1st Baron Churston), and other aunt, Eleanor Chandos-Pole, married Vice-Admiral Henry Bagot (a son of Rt. Rev. Hon. Richard Bagot).Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 5, 163. His maternal grandparents were Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington and the former Elizabeth Williams Green.Townend, Peter. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 18th edition. 3 volumes. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965-1972, vol. 1, p. 574.
He was educated at Eton College from 1862 to 1869, where he played cricket.
Career In 1871, he joined the Grenadier Guards before retiring in 1878. He then served as Honorary Colonel of the Derbyshire Yeomanry.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire. Upon his father's death in 1873, he inherited the family property of Radbourne Hall.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 210. Like his father and grandfather before him, he served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1905.
Personal life On 7 March 1882 Chandos-Pole married Violet Katharine Beckett-Denison (1860–1883), a daughter of William Beckett-Denison (a younger son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet) and Hon. Helen Duncombe (a daughter of the 2nd Baron Feversham). Before her death on 18 March 1883 at age 22, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 2, p. 1796.
Dorothy Violet Chandos-Pole (1882–1954), who married Degge Wilmot-Sitwell, fourth son of the Solicitor-General of Victoria, Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell and Mary Blanche Senior, in 1906.
After her death in 1883, he married Inez Blanche Marie Clothilde Eva Arent (1881–1941), younger daughter of Gen. Alfred Arent, former commanding general of the 11th Brandenburg Uhlans, on 26 October 1898. She was a friend of Dame Edith Sitwell. Together, they were the parents of two children:
Winifred Olga Chandos-Pole (b. ), who married Bernard Martin Woog de Rustem in 1927. John Walkelyne Chandos-Pole (1913–1994), who married Ilsa Jill Barstz, daughter of Emil Ernst Barstz of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1947.
Chandos-Pole died at Radbourne Hall, Derby, Derbyshire on 20 October 1930, and was buried at St Andrews Churchyard in Radbourne.
References
External links Reginald Walkelyne Chandos-Pole (1853-1930), Soldier; sportsman at National Portrait Gallery, London