Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough

Who was Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough?

Thomas Weston Peel Long Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough was an English landowner, soldier and Peer.

The second son of Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough and his wife Margaret Mary Ann Brocklesby Davis, he was born in Sedgehill, Wiltshire and educated at Rottingdean, Radley College, Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He attained the rank of Captain in the Yorkshire Regiment, and served in World War I with the Royal Flying Corps in Egypt, England and France. Shot down while on a bombing raid to St. Quentin with 13 Squadron on 1 July 1916, he was held as a prisoner of war for two years. He escaped in May 1918, but only made it as far as the Netherlands, which was neutral at the time, and interned for the rest of the War. He was not repatriated until January 1919.

Gisborough joined to the peacetime Territorial Force, serving with the Green Howards from April 1921. He rose to the rank of Major before relinquishing his commission in 1930. As his elder brother had been accidentally killed in World War I while guarding German prisoners of War, he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Gisborough on 23 January 1938.