Giles Bryan Chichester, who died 12 August, 2026, aged 80, was a scion of the Chichester baronets.
He was a Conservative Party politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England and Gibraltar from 1999 until he retired 2014. He was elected as Vice-President of the European Parliament on 6 July 2011.
He was MEP for Devon and East Plymouth from 1994 to 1999 and represented South West England in the European Parliament from 1999 until 2014. On 23 July 2004 he was elected chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He was a former chairman of the Carlton Club Political Committee and is chairman of his family business publishing maps.
He was born 29 July, 1946, the son of Sir Francis Charles Chichester, KBE (1901-1972), the pioneering aviator and solo sailor, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall in 1966–67.
Giles's mother was the former Sheila Mary Craven, who died in 1989.
He married 8 September, 1979, Virginia Ansell (born 1946), daughter of Edwin Arthur Ansell (1905-1972), of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, by his wife the former Gladys Heather Pearce (1921-2016), by whom he had two sons, George (born 19 May, 1981), Charles (born 13 Dec, 1990), and a daughter, Jessica (born 15 February, 1984).
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