CHESTER, HARRY, youngest son of Sir Robert Chester (qv); b. 1 Oct 1806; at Charterhouse Sch. 1815-9; adm. 10 Jan 1820 (Best's); KS 1820; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1824, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1824, scholar 1825, matr. Mich. 1824; a Clerk in the Privy Council Office May 1826 - 31 Dec 1858; Assistant Secretary to Committee of Privy Council on Education 1840-58; JP Middlesex; author, Spain and Portugal, 1834, and of books on education; m. 1st, 2 Sep 1837 Anne Maria, only dau. of Robert Isherwood, Highgate, Middlesex; m. 2nd, 24 Mar 1856 Henrietta Mary, dau. of George Goff; d. 5 Oct 1868.
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