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On 13 May 2005 it was announced that Chidgey would be created a life peer, and on 17 June 2005 the peerage was created as Baron Chidgey, of Hamble-le-Rice in the County of Hampshire.

In the House of Lords, he was Liberal Democrat spokesman in defence from 2005 to 2006.