Succeeding his father in 1905 to become 3rd Baron, Chelmsford was appointed Governor of Queensland (1905 to 1909), and then became Governor of New South Wales (1909 to 1913).
In 1924, despite being a life-long Conservative, Chelmsford was persuaded to join the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 as First Lord of the Admiralty, though this was a technical post and he never joined the Party.
Frederic Thesiger, 1st BaronChelmsford (25 April 1794 – 5 October 1878), was an English jurist and politician.
Frederic Thesiger, 1st BaronChelmsford (25 April 1794 – 1878), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the third son of Charles Thesiger, and was born in London.
He left four sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest, Frederick Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Lord Chelmsford[[ (1827-1905), earned distinction as a soldier, while the third, Alfred Henry Thesiger (1838-1880) was made a lord justice of appeal and a [[privy councillor in 1877, at the early age of thirty-nine, but died only three years later.
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