Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Thesiger, Frederick, Lord Chelmsford

by Joseph Foster

Thesiger, Frederick, Lord Chelmsford, created D.C.L. 8 June, 1842 (3s. Charles, of the Island of St. Vincent); captain in the navy 1802, served in the Cambria frigate 1807, and at Copenhagen, bar.-at-law, Gray's Inn, 1818, and of the Inner Temple ('ad eundem') 1824, bencher 1834, Q.C. 1835, solicitor-general 1844-5, knighted 23 May, 1844, attorney-general 1845-6 & 1852, lord chancellor 1858-9, 1866-8, M.P. Woodstock 1840-4, Abingdon 1844-52, and Stamford 1852-8, P.C. 1858, created Baron Chelmsford 1 May, 1858, F.R.S., died 5 Oct., 1878. See Foster's Peerage.