Jocelyn Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester

Jocelyn Brudenell Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester, OBE (21 May 1871 – 14 November 1926)[1] was a British nobleman.[2]

The elder son of Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester, and Alice, the daughter of 1st Baron Wolverton, he was educated at Eton.[3] In 1898 he married Ruth Buxton with whom he had four children: Lady Elizabeth, Francis, Lady Prudence, who married Guy Branch, and John. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex; a Public Works Loan Commissioner and a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Sussex Regiment.[4]

He was awarded the O.B.E. in 1918.

Coat of arms of Jocelyn Pelham, 6th Earl of Chichester
Coronet
A coronet of an Earl
Crest
A peacock in pride argent.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th azure, three pelicans vulning themselves argent; 2nd and 3rd gules, two pieces of belts with buckles, erect in pale, the buckles upwards argent.
Supporters
Dexter, a horse of a mouse dun colour; Sinister, a bear proper, each collared with a belt, buckle and pendant or.
Motto
Vincit amor patriae (The love of my country will prevail).
Badge
The buckle of a belt or.[5]
  1. ^ Lord Chichester. The Times (London, England), Monday, Nov 15, 1926; pg. 19; Issue 44429
  2. ^ ‘CHICHESTER’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 April 2017
  3. ^ Cricinfo
  4. ^ National Archives
  5. ^ Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 311.