Earl of Chichester is a title that has been created three times in British history.
Read more about Earl Of Chichester: First Creation, Second Creation (1675), Third Creation (1801), Earls of Chichester, First Creation (1644), Earls of Chichester, Second Creation (1675), Pelham Baronets, of Laughton (1611), Barons Pelham, (of Laughton) (1706), Dukes of Newcastle and Barons Pelham of Stanmer (1715/1756/1762), Barons Pelham of Stanmer (1762), Earls of Chichester, Third Creation (1801)
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“Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)
“There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)