CHAMPERNOON, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1735 (Prat's); left 1736. [Perhaps John Champernowne, bapt. Paignton, Devon 21 Feb 1721, son of John Champernowne].
CHAMPERNOWNE, ARTHUR, elder son of Arthur Champernowne MP, Dartington, Devon, and his first wife Elizabeth, second dau. of Francis Courtenay, Powderham, Devon; bapt. 11 Nov 1708; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1718/9; in under school list 1722; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 29 Dec 1724, matr. 1725; of Dartington, Devon; contested Totnes 1732, 1734, 1754; m. 1735 Jane, dau. of John Hollings MD FRS FRCP, Physician to George II; d. 27 Apr 1766.
CHAMPERNOWNE, FRANCIS, brother of Arthur Champernowne (qv); bapt. 4 May 1711; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1720/1; in under school list 1724; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Aug 1730, aged 17 (sic); BCL 1737; ordained; Rector of Dartington, Devon; d. unm. 1763 (will proved PCC 7 Mar 1763).
CHAMPION, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1737/8; left 1738.
Champion, Edward Charles; son of Edward Champion, engraver, Camberwell, Kent ; b. 1845 (birth registered St.George’s, Southwark second quarter 1845) ; art student (1871 Census) ; Drawing Master Jan 1874-84 ; portrait painter, living Kennington, Surrey (1881 Census) ; m. Annie --- (1881 Census) (marriage registered Camberwell, first quarter 1876) ; d. 14 Nov 1899, as of Metropolitan Asylum, Caterham, Surrey, aged 54 : it is likely that he had been a mental patient for some time, since he was no longer living at home with his wife by the time of the 1891 Census.
CHAMPION, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1725/6; in school list 1731.
CHAMPNES, WILLIAM HENRY; b.; adm. 30 Jun 1788; chorister.
Champness, Kenneth Edward, son of Henry Robert Champness, M.V.O., asst. director of Naval Construction at the Admiralty, by Susan Augusta, daughter of Charles R. Quiller, of Chelsea; b. Aug. 11, 1896, adm. Jan. 14, 1909 (H); left July 1913; temp. 20d Lieut. Royal Marine Light Infantry Oct. 7, 1915; Lieut. Oct. 7, 1916; served in France and Belgium 1917; invalided.
Champness, Norman Creswick, son of Edward Coulter Champness, of Wandsworth Common, Surrey, by Ada Evelyn, daughter of John Epworth Thompson, of Sefton Park, Liverpool; b. March 26, 1896; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (H); left Dec. 1913; was articled to a solicitor but joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. in Sept. 1914; 2nd Lieut. Dorset Regt. Feb. 22, 1915; Lieut. 4th Batt. July 1, 1917; served in Mesopotamia and was wounded at Sann-y-at April 22, 1916; A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief in Ireland 1918-9; Lloyds insurance broker 1920; underwriting member of Lloyds 1952; director, Retirement Advisory Bureau, Inst. of Directors, 1962; m. June 6, 1922, Ida Evelyn Mary, only daughter of Sidney Gorringe Poynter, of Claygate, Surrey; d. 1966.