Anthony Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin

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

Biography

Born in 1906, Chaplin 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.

During 1935 and 1936, Chaplin went on a zoological expedition to New Guinea. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London between 1952 and 1955, and a member of its Council.

Chaplin 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.

Chaplin succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Chaplin in 1949.

Marriages & children

Chaplin was married firstly on 9 January 1933 to Alvilde Bridges (1909–1994), the only daughter of Lt Gen Sir Tom Bridges. They had one daughter[1]:

  • Hon Oenone Clarissa Chaplin (born 12 April 1934)

The marriage to Alvilde was dissolved in 1950 and on 16 March 1951 he married secondly the Hon Rosemary Lyttelton (1922–2003), daughter of Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos and Lady Moira Osborne. They had two daughters:

  • Hon Miranda Amadea Chaplin (born 3 January 1956)
  • Hon Christina Susanna Chaplin (born 16 December 1958)

Lord Chaplin died in 1981 when, in the absence of male heirs, the viscountcy became extinct.[2]

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References
  1. The peerage.com, entry for 3rd Viscount Chaplin
  2. 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.
  • ‘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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