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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Raleigh Chichester-Constable
| image =
| country = England
| international =
| fullname = Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|12|21|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Great Marlow]], [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|6|25|1890|12|21|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Burton Constable]], [[Yorkshire]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast]]
| role =
| family =
| club1 = [[Minor Counties cricket team|Minor Counties]]
| year1 = 1935
| clubnumber1 =
| club2 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year2 = 1926–1927
| clubnumber2 =
| club3 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
| year3 = 1919
| clubnumber3 =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 24
| runs1 = 152
| bat avg1 = 8.94
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 47[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 413
| wickets1 = 4
| bowl avg1 = 60.75
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 2/42
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/–
| date = 20 March 2011
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11119.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable''' (21 December 1890 – 26 May 1963)<ref name="YB">{{cite book |title=The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook |last=Warner |first=David |year=2011 |edition=113th |publisher=Great Northern Books |location=Ilkley, Yorkshire |isbn=978-1-905080-85-4 |page=366 |url= }}</ref> was an English soldier and cricketer. He played 24 matches of [[first-class cricket]] between 1919 and 1935.

==Early life==
He was born in [[Great Marlow]], [[Buckinghamshire]]; his [[surname]] was changed from Chichester to Chichester-Constable in January 1895. He was educated at [[Stonyhurst College]] in [[Lancashire]].<ref name=WCA/>

==Military career==
Chichester-Constable was commissioned into the [[Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)]], and served with the 2nd Battalion during the [[World War I|First World War]], remaining in the army during the [[interwar period]], and commanding the [[46th Division (United Kingdom)|46th Division]]'s [[139th (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade|139th Brigade]] from 1940 to 1943 during the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.generals.dk/general/Chichester-Constable/Raleigh_Charles_Joseph/Great_Britain.html|title=Biography of Brigadier Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable (1890 – 1963), Great Britain}}</ref> In the First World War he received the [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] and was wounded six times; in the Second World War he was awarded a [[Medal bar|bar]] to his DSO for his service at [[Dunkirk evacuation|Dunkirk]].<ref name=WCA>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1964, p. 946.</ref>

==Cricket career==
A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler, Chichester-Constable played most of his cricket as the [[captain (cricket)|captain]] of the [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire Second XI]] from 1926 to 1938.<ref name=WCA/> He also played in 24 first-class matches between 1919 and 1935, scoring a total of 152 runs at 8.94, with a top score of 47 not out, and taking four wickets at 60.74. His only match for Yorkshire's First XI came in the game against [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] at [[The Circle, Kingston upon Hull]] in July 1919. Batting at number 11 he scored a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]] in Yorkshire's first innings of 241, and bowled four overs without success for six runs, as Essex were beaten by an innings and 58 runs.<ref name="YB"/>

He played for the [[British Army|Army]] against the [[Royal Navy|Navy]] in a first-class match in 1921, taking a career best 2 for 42 as the Army won by 10 wickets, and another first-class match for the [[Free Foresters]] against [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] two years later. The bulk of his first-class experience came on a five-month [[Marylebone Cricket Club cricket team in India and Ceylon in 1926–27|tour of India]] undertaken by the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] in 1926-27, when Chichester-Constable played in 19 of the 30 first-class matches. His only subsequent first-class matches came in 1935, in two matches for the [[Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket|Minor Counties]] against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] and Cambridge University.

==Later life==
He became a farmer and briefly entered politics as an Independent candidate at the [[1939 Holderness by-election]].

==Personal life==
Chichester-Constable married Gladys Hanly and they had one son, born in 1927. Gladys died in 1954 and he married Inez Quilter in 1955. He died in May 1963 in [[Burton Constable]] in the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]].

Chichester-Constable's son with Gladys, John Raleigh Chichester-Constable [[Deputy lieutenant|DL]] (6 April 1927 – 23 December 2011), was the owner of [[Burton Constable Hall]], was Lord Paramount of the Seigniory of Holderness, and served as [[High Sheriff of Humberside]] in 1979 and 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8975940/John-Chichester-Constable.html|title = John Chichester-Constable| date=23 December 2011 }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=11119}}
* {{cricketarchive|id=28527}}
*[http://www.generals.dk/general/Chichester-Constable/Raleigh_Charles_Joseph/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]

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