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| office1          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Paddington South (UK Parliament constituency)|Paddington South]]
| parliament1      =
| term_start1      = 23 February 1950
| term_end1        = 4 October 1951
| predecessor1     = [[Ernest Taylor (Royal Navy officer)|Ernest Taylor]]
| successor1       = [[Robert Allan, Baron Allan of Kilmahew|Robert Allan]]
| office2          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|South West Norfolk]]
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| term_start2      = 14 November 1935
| term_end2        = 15 June 1945
| predecessor2     = [[Alan McLean (MP)|Alan McLean]]
| successor2       = [[Sidney Dye]]
| birth_name       = Somerset Struben de Chair
| birth_date       = ((Birth date |1911|08|22|df=y))
| birth_place      = [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]], [[Berkshire]], [[England]]
| death_date       = ((death date and age|1995|1|5|1911|08|22|df=y))
| death_place      = [[Antigua]]
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* ((Marriage|Carmen Appleton|1950|1958|end=divorced))
* ((Marriage|Margaret Patricia Manlove|1958|1974|end=divorced))
* ((Marriage|[[Lady Juliet Tadgell| Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam]]|1974))
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| party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]
| parents          = [[Dudley de Chair|Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair]] <br /> Enid Struben
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'''Somerset Struben de Chair''' (22 August 1911 – 5 January 1995) was an English author, politician, and poet. He edited several volumes of the memoirs of [[Napoleon]].

==Early and personal life==
De Chair was the younger son of Admiral Sir [[Dudley de Chair|Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair]], KCB, KCMG, MVO, and Enid, daughter of Henry William Struben, of [[South African Republic|Transvaal]], [[South Africa]]. The de Chair family were of [[Huguenot]] origin, descending from Rene de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean Francois, Councillor to [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]], was created a Marquis in 1600 by [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]]. The family became English gentry through generations of clergymen.<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. I, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, p. 195</ref> He married firstly, on 8 October 1932, Thelma Grace (1911–1974), daughter of Harold Dennison Arbuthnot, of Merristwood Hall, [[Worplesdon]], [[Surrey]]. They had two sons: Rodney Somerset and Peter Dudley, and divorced in 1950.<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. I, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, p. 195</ref>

He married secondly, in 1950, Mrs (June) Carmen Appleton, daughter of A. G. Bowen, of [[Brabourne]], [[Kent]]. They had two sons: Rory and Somerset Carlo, and divorced in 1957.<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. I, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, p. 195</ref> In 1958 de Chair married his third wife, Mrs Margaret Patricia Manlove, daughter of K. E. Field-Hart; they had a daughter, Teresa Loraine Aphrodite (who married [[Sir Toby Clarke, 6th Baronet]]).<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. I, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, p. 195</ref> The third marriage ended in divorce in 1974, and that year he married his fourth wife, [[Lady Juliet Tadgell|Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam]], only child of [[Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam]], who had divorced [[Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol]] in 1972. Somerset and Lady Juliet had a daughter, Helena, who married [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]]. The hurdler [[Lawrence Clarke (hurdler)|Sir Charles Lawrence Somerset Clarke, 7th Baronet]] is his grandson and the Member of Parliament [[Theo Clarke]] is his granddaughter.

==Career==
Somerset de Chair was educated at [[The King's School, Parramatta]] in New South Wales between 1923 and 1930 before attending [[Balliol College, Oxford]].

He was Conservative MP for [[South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|South West Norfolk]] between 1935 and 1945, losing his seat by 53 votes. He was one of the Conservatives who voted against the government in the [[Norway Debate]] in May 1940. He then served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1942–44. De Chair returned to Parliament as MP for [[Paddington South (UK Parliament constituency)|Paddington South]] from 1950 to 1951. Many years later, in 1994, he stood in [[1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|that year's European Parliament elections]] as the "Independent Anti European Superstate" candidate for [[Essex North and Suffolk South (European Parliament constituency)|Essex North and Suffolk South]], coming in fourth place with 12,409 votes.

Since he had been a cadet in the [[Officers' Training Corps]] at Oxford, De Chair qualified for a commission as a [[Reservist|Reserve]] [[Second Lieutenant]] of the [[Life Guards (United Kingdom)|Life Guards]] in 1938. He was mobilised on 24 August 1939, a few days before the United Kingdom's entry into [[World War II]]. He served as an [[intelligence officer]] with the [[4th Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)|4th Cavalry Brigade]] during the [[Anglo-Iraqi War]] and the [[Syria–Lebanon Campaign|Syrian Campaign]] where he was wounded on 21 June 1941. Later service was with the [[General Staff]] with the rank of Acting [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_D02.html |title=British Army Officers 1939-1945 - T. Deacon to W.G.M. Dixon |last1=Houterman |first1=Hans |last2=Koppes |first2=Jeroen |date= |website=www.unithistories.com |publisher= |accessdate=28 May 2014))</ref>

==Writings==
De Chair wrote historical non-fiction, a number of now largely neglected novels, one play, three collections of poetry, and several works of autobiography. He also edited several volumes of the memoirs of [[Napoleon]] in English.<ref>British Library [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?ct=Next+Page&pag=nxt&indx=11&pageNumberComingFrom=2&frbg=&vl(488279563UI0)=any&indx=11&fn=search&dscnt=0&scp.scps=scope%3A(BLCONTENT)&tb=t&mode=Basic&vid=BLVU1&ct=Next%20Page&srt=rank&tab=local_tab&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=%22Somerset%20de%20Chair%22&dstmp=1505636277713 Retrieved 17 September 2017.]</ref>

==Houses and art==
De Chair was known for his extravagant taste and lived in a series of large country houses. He lived between 1944 and 1949 at [[Chilham Castle]] and leased [[Blickling Hall]] from the [[Marquess of Lothian]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.stosyth.gov.uk/default.asp?calltype=mar04200yearsago |title=Stosyth.gov.uk - Mar 04 200 Years Ago |access-date=2011-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074230/http://www.stosyth.gov.uk/default.asp?calltype=mar04200yearsago |archive-date=27 September 2011 |df=dmy-all ))</ref><ref>((cite web |url=http://www.chilham-castle.co.uk/history.aspx?id=8 |title=Chilham Castle - Country House & Gardens |access-date=2011-09-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810081803/http://www.chilham-castle.co.uk/history.aspx?id=8 |archive-date=10 August 2011 |df=dmy-all ))</ref> He owned [[St Osyth's Priory]] in [[Essex]] from 1954 until his death in 1995, and also bought [[Bourne Park House]] in [[Kent]] with his last wife, [[Lady Juliet Tadgell|Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam]].

==Bibliography==
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;Fiction
*''Enter Napoleon'' (1934)
*''Red Tie in the Morning'' (1936)
*''The Teetotalitarian State'' (1947)
*''The Dome of the Rock'' (1948)
*''The Story of a Lifetime'' (1954)
*''Bring Back the Gods'' (1962)
*''Friends, Romans, Concubines'' (1973)
*''The Star of the Wind'' (1974)
*''Legend of the Yellow River'' (1979)

;Non-fiction
*''The Impending Storm'' (1930)
*''Divided Europe'' (1931)
*''The Golden Carpet'' (1943)
*''The Silver Crescent'' (1943)
*''Mind on the March'' (1945)

;Edited and translated 
*''The First Crusade'' (1945)
*''Napoleon's Memoirs'' (1945)
*''Napoleon's Supper at Beaucaire'' (1945)
*''Julius Caesar's Commentaries'' (1951)
*''Napoleon on Napoleon'' (1992)

;Edited
*''The Sea is Strong'' (1961)
*''Getty on Getty'' (1989)

;Autobiographies
*''Buried Pleasure'' (1985)
*''Morning Glory'' (1988)
*''Die? I Thought I'd Laugh'' (1993)

;Drama
*''Peter Public'' (1932)

;Poetry collections
*''The Millennium'' (1949)
*''Songs from St. Osyth: The Collected Verse'' (1970)
*''Sounds of Summer'' (1992)
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==References==
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*[http://everything2.com/title/Somerset+de+Chair everything2.com]

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