Born Glyde, County Louth, Ireland as Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue. Elected to parliament as a liberal in 1847 and rose to prominence under Gladstone, but fell from grace over the question of Irish home rule. Created Baron Carlingford in 1874 and succeeded his brother as second Baron Clermont in 1887. Died Marseilles.
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Lord Carlingford
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Born into an elite horsey family, close to the royals. 1960 commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and stayed in the mounted services for much of his military career, based at Hyde Park Barracks....
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St Pancras Rent strike: In 1960 the Tory council of the old borough of St Pancras (now part of Camden) attempted to impose large rent increases. The tenants, the generation who had fought in WW2, ...
Lady Charlotte Mary Roberte Paul Petsopoulos (née Ponsonby).  Philanthropist; wife of Yanni Petsopoulos; daughter of 10th Earl of Bessborough.Â
It was amalgamated under the London Government Act of 1963, with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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