Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE was a British businessman, pioneering aviator and solo sailor.
Sir Francis Chichester, whose 1966–67 global voyage was sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat, its Woolmark featured on his cricket cap
The former Rectory in Shirwell, Devon, birthplace of Francis Chichester; photographed in 2017
Francis Chichester after his solo flight from Croydon, England to Darwin, Mascot, Australia, 1930
Memorial to Francis Chichester in St Peter's church, Shirwell
Giles Bryan Chichester was a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar from 1999 until he retired in 2014. He was elected a
Francis Chichester
…and is buried with him. Sir Francis Chichester had two sons, George and Giles. His older son George died in 1968 of an asthma attack. His younger son, Giles Chichester, was for many years a British politician, and Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar. Chichester is played…