Chelmsford, FREDERIC THESIGER, BARON

Chelmsford, FREDERIC THESIGER, BARON, born in 1794, was a midshipman in the navy, but exchanged the sea for law, and was called to the bar in 1818. He was knighted and made solicitor-general in 1844, attorney-general in 1845 and 1852, and lord chancellor in 1858 and 1866. He died October 5, 1878.—His son, FREDERIC AUGUSTUS THESIGER, second BARON, was born in 1827, entered the Rifle Brigade in 1844, became major in the Grenadier Guards in 1855, and served through the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, and the Abyssinian campaign of 1868. He was adjutant-general in Bengal (1869-74), and commanded the forces in the Kaffir war of 1878 and in the unfortunate Zulh war of 1879, having resigned the governorship of Cape Colony. Appointed lieutenant-general in 1882, he was lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1884-89, and retired in 1893.