The Honourable Sir Gerald Henry Crofton Chichester KCVO (22 June 1886 – 8 October 1939) was a British diplomat and courtier of Anglo-Irish descent who served as Private Secretary to Queen Mary.
[1] He was the eldest son of Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baron Templemore and, his second wife, Alice Elizabeth Dawkins.
[5] In 1916, he was appointed honorary attaché to the British Legation in Copenhagen before returning to London the following year as a temporary clerk in the Foreign Office.
[3] Chichester "was reputed to have the most perfect manners of any British diplomat who served in Paris as well as a French accent that many Parisians could envy.
[3] "Always immaculately dressed,"[6] Chichester, who never married, owned a farmhouse in Surrey where "he created a beautiful home, and there he gathered his friends, mostly drawn from the world of art and music, of which he had a deep and intelligent appreciation.