CHAPMAN, ---; b.; at school 1660-4 (but probably adm. 8 Jan 1661/2); a boarder (Busby’s Account Book).
CHAPMAN, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.
CHAPMAN, ---; b.; at school by 27 Jan 1795; in school list 1795.
CHAPMAN, CHRISTOPHER, son of Christopher Chapman, Lay Vicar of the Abbey, and Chief Brewer to the College, and Melior ---; bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 8 Jul 1647; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1660; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1664, adm. pens. 1664, scholar 1665; BA 1667/8; MA 1671; in a petition to the Crown he complains that “he and other Westminster scholars were disappointed of their just expectations of fellowships . . . on account of pre-elections, which are unwarranted by statutes, and were forbidden by King James”, and begs “a letter for his admission to the next fellowship” (CSP Dom 1665/6, 141); d. 25 Mar 1675. Buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, memorial tablet near West Cloister door.
CHAPMAN, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1724; in under school list 1727.
CHAPMAN, FREDERICK STOVIN, brother of John Chapman (adm. 1861, qv); b. 23 Jul 1849; adm. (G) 29 Sep 1861; left Whitsun 1864; Ensign, 21st Foot, 2 May 1868; Lieut., 27 Oct 1871; Capt., Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1 Oct 1880; Cameron Highlanders, 29 Oct 1881; Paymaster, 2nd batt., East Surrey Regt., 16 Oct 1884; reserve, on retired pay, 27 Jan 1888; served Egyptian War, 1882; d. 8 Feb 1904.
CHAPMAN, GEORGE WALTER, eldest son of George Chapman, Afon House, Mortlake, Surrey, land agent and auctioneer, and Lucy Weston (IGI); b. 14 Jul 1847; adm. 27 Sep 1860; QS 1862; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1866, matr. 23 May 1866; BA 1870; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jun 1869, called to bar 7 Jun 1873; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; Assistant Receiver, Court of Bankruptcy, 1888-96, Senior Assistant Receiver 1896-9, an Official Receiver 1899-1912; m. 19 Sep 1888 Marion Patterson, third dau. of Frederic Sewell, Redcliffe Square, South Kensington; d. 5 Sep 1913.
Chapman, Gervaise Vance, son of Harold Ernest Chapman, Bank of England economist, and Lily, d. of Robert Hanna Vance of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; b. 10 July 1931; adm. Sept. 1945 (A); left Apr. 1950; producer of award-winning corporate and commercial films in UK and abroad; dir. Tabard Productions; m. 4 Aug. 1956 Tessa Antonia Marguerite, d. of Lieut. -Cdr. R. P. C. O’Sullivan, Royal Navy; d. 10 May 2016.
Chapman, Guy Patterson, only son of George Walter Chapman (q.v.); b. Sept. 11, 1889; adm. as K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 24, 1903 (A); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1908, matric. Michaelmas 1908 B.A. 1912; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 26, 1914; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C.; 2nd Lieut. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers Nov. 27, 1914; Lieut. March 1, 1916; Major; mentioned in despatches L.G. May 23 and Dec. 27, 1918; M.C. April 2, 1919; O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1919; London School of Economics 1933-5; 1st cl. B.Sc. (Econ.) 1935; a publisher 1920-40; Professor of Modern History, Leeds University, 1945-1953; Lieut. Army Educational Corps Jan. 16, 1941; Lieut.-Col. 1942; Commandant Army School of Edurntion 1942-5; author of Beckford (1937) and other works; m. 1st May 22, 1915, Doris Mary, younger daughter of Frederick Sennett, of Stanbridge, Leighton Buzzard, Beds; 2nd Feb. 1, 1926, Margaret Storm Jameson, Hon. D. Litt., writer, daughter of William Jameson; d. June 1972.
CHAPMAN, HENRY BREWER, son of Henry Samuel Chapman, London, newspaper editor and barrister, Judge of Supreme Court, New Zealand, and his first wife Catherine Brewer; b. 10 Apr 1841; adm. 6 Oct 1853 (James'); QS 1856; elected head to Trinity Coll Cambridge (with Triplett) 1860, adm. pens. 24 May 1860, matr. Lent 1861; LLB 1864; drowned in wreck of SS London, while on her passage to Australia, 11 Jan 1866.