Background
Chalmers was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the son of John Chalmers and his wife Julia (née Mackay).
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Chalmers was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the son of John Chalmers and his wife Julia (née Mackay).
Studied at City of London School (scholar). Oriel College, Oxford (scholar). First - class in Classical Moderations, 1878.
Second-class in Natural Science, 1881.
First in open competition for Civil Service, 18S2.
He joined the Treasury in 1882 and served as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury from 1903 to 1907. He was then Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue between 1907 and 1911, and Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from to 1911 to 1913. In June 1913 Chalmers was appointed Governor of Ceylon, a post he held from 18 October 1913 to 4 December 1915.
He was then briefly Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Wimborne in 1916.
He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council the same year. He then returned to the Treasury and served as Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1916 to 1919.
In 1919 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Chalmers, of Northiam in the County of Sussex. He served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1924-1931.
He spent much of his adult life editing or translating Pali texts.
Lord Chalmers married, firstly, Maud Mary Piggott, daughter of John George Forde Piggott, in 1888. Lord Chalmers died in November 1938, aged 80. As he had no surviving male issue the barony died with him.
Lady Chalmers died in 1966.
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Spouse 1888, Maud Mary,daughter of late John George Pigott.