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CHAPMAN, PETER, brother of Christopher Chapman (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1668; d. 11 Sep 1672. Buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey, memorial tablet near West Cloister door.

CHAMBERS, SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK, eldest son of William Chambers, EICS Bengal, Oriental scholar, and Charity, dau. of Sir Thomas Fraser, Balmain, Inverness-shire [or Thomas Fraser MD, Antigua ?]; b. 10 Oct 1786; adm.; KS 1800; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1804, adm. pens. 12 May 1804, scholar 26 Apr 1805, matr. Mich. 1804; BA 1808; MA 1811; Lic. Med. 1814; MD 1818; Members’ (Second) Prize for Senior Bachelors 1810; medical student at St. George’s Hospital and Edinburgh; Physician to St. George’s Hospital, 20 Apr 1816-39; FRCP 30 Sep 1818; Physician in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide 25 Oct 1836, William IV 1 Jun 1837, Queen Victoria 8 Aug 1837 and Duchess of Kent 1839; the leading physician in London until his retirement from practice in 1848; FRS 13 Mar 1828; KCH 8 Aug 1837; m. 10 Feb 1821 Mary, dau. of William Mackinnon Fraser MD, Lower Grosvenor Street, London; d. 16 Dec 1855. DNB.

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.

Charles, Lionel Tarn Selkirk, son of Selkirk Charles, of Croydon, Surrey, barrister-at-law; b. May 7, 1883; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 30, 1897; left April 1898; Hertford Coll. Oxon., scholar (classics); matric. Michaelmas 1910.

Cheadle, John Raymond, son of Raymond Cheadle, bank manager, of Battersea, and Irene Vio­let, d. of Col. John Forbes Meiklejohn RA of Strathdon, Aberdeenshire; b. 7 Apr. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (KS); Capt. of the school 1931-2; left July 1932; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935 (1st class hons Class. Trip. Pt 1), MA 1939; asst master Bradfield Coll. 1935-6, Worksop Coll. 1936-41, Malvern Coll. 1946; Intell. Corps 1941-5 (Maj.); FO (GCHQ) 1946-78; author of Basic Greek Vocabulary 1939; m. 12 Dec. 1945 Peggy Clare, d. of Charles Walter Bunch of Gt Yarmouth; d. 29 July 1989.

CHEAP, JOHN, son of John Cheap, EICS Bengal, and Arabella Anne Clarke; b. (Calcutta) 26 Nov 1793; adm. Christmas 1808; KS (aged 15) 1808; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1811, adm. pens. 25 May 1811, scholar 1812, matr. Mich. 1811; BA 1815; MA 1818; ordained deacon 22 Oct 1816, priest 21 Dec 1817 (both York); Rector of Wimpole, Cambs., from 8 Aug 1818; Domestic Chaplain to Philip, Earl of Hardwicke 1 Jan 1819; Vicar of Riseley, Beds., from 11 Mar 1825; m. [by 1822) Mary ---; d. 3 Sep 1831.

CHARLETON, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS in 1569; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1571, adm. scholar 1572, matr. Easter 1572; BA 1575/6.

CHARLTON, GEORGE, second son of George Charlton, Boxley, Kent, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Andrews, London; bapt. 15 Jan 1695; adm.; QS (aged 14) 1711; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1715, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1715, scholar 13 Apr 1716, matr. 1718; BA 1718/9; MA 1722; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1721, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1722; ordained priest (Ely) 22 Dec 1728; Vicar of Wateringbury, Kent, from 22 Dec 1729; d. 20 Dec 1734.

CHASE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Chase, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1757; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1762, matr. 9 Jun 1762, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1762 - 22 Dec 1785, expiry year of grace as V. Staverton; BA 1766; MA 1769; BD 1777; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1769, priest 23 Dec 1770 (both Oxford); Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1778, St. Thomas, Oxford, 1780; Vicar of Staverton, Northants., from 18 Dec 1784; Rector of St. Martin’s, Birmingham, “for a few months”; Prebendary of Wells from 11 May 1797; d. 6 Jan 1815. [Presumably William Chase, son of Thomas Chase and Sarah ---, bapt. St. Peter le Poer, London, 21 Jul 1743 (IGI)].

CHEPMELL, EDWARD JAMES, brother of William Philip Chepmell (qv); b. 10 Dec 1845; adm. (G) 23 Jun 1859; QS 8 Apr 1861; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1864, but was never adm.; d. 28 Feb 1865.