Anthony Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin

Anthony Freskyn Charles Hamby Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin (14 December 1906 – 18 December 1981) was the third Viscount Chaplin and an amateur zoologist and musician.

Born in 1906, he was the son of Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin, and the Hon. Gwladys Wilson, daughter of Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme and Florence Wellesley. He was educated at Radley College.

In 1933, he married Alvilde Bridges (1909–1994), the only daughter of Lt.Gen. Sir Tom Bridges and Janet Marshall; they had one daughter, Oenone Clarissa (b. 1934). During 1935 and 1936, he went on a zoological expedition to New Guinea. He studied musical composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger between 1936 and 1939. He served as an Officer in the Royal Air Force from 1940 until 1946, achieving the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

He succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Chaplin in 1949. His marriage to Alvilde was dissolved in 1950, and in 1951, he married the Hon. Rosemary Lyttelton (1922–2003), daughter of Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos and Lady Moira Osborne. They had two daughters, Miranda Amadea (b. 1956) and Christina Susanna (b. 1958). He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London between 1952 and 1955, and a member of its Council. Upon his death in 1981, the viscountcy became extinct.^[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anthony Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin

16. Charles Chaplin (1759 – c. 1821)

8. Rev. Henry Chaplin (born 1789)

17. Elizabeth Taylor

4. Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840–1923)

18. William Ellice

9. Caroline Ellice

2. Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin (1877–1949)

20. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786–1861)

10. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828–1892)

21. Lady Harriet Howard (1806–1868)

5. Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1855–1881)

22. John Hay-Mackenzie (c. 1792 – 1849)

11. Anne Hay-Mackenzie, Countess of Cromartie (1829–1888)

23. Anne Gibson-Craig (1802–1869)

1. Anthony Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin

24. David Wilson (1746–1810)

12. Thomas Wilson (1792–1869)

25. Elizabeth Grey (b. c. 1750)

6. Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme (1833–1907)

26. John West

13. Susannah West (1796–1879)

27. Grace Harrop

3. Hon. Gwladys Wilson (1881–1971)

28. Rev. Hon. Gerald Wellesley (1770–1848)

14. Col. William Wellesley (1813–1888)

29. Lady Emily Cadogan (1773–1839)

7. Florence Wellesley (1853–1932)

30. Thomas Hayden

15. Jane Hayden (died 1901)

References

↑ Hammond, Peter W., ed. (1988). The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV. Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing. p. 672.

External links

‘CHAPLIN’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 21 May 2011

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Eric Chaplin	Viscount Chaplin 1949–1981	Extinct
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Sheffield Airey Neave	Secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1952–1955	Succeeded by Solly Zuckerman

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[1] Hammond, Peter W., ed. (1988). The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV. Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing. p. 672.