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]

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:

Lord Chaplin died in 1981 in Belgravia, London, when in the absence of male heirs, the viscountcy became extinct.[3]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ The peerage.com, entry for 3rd Viscount Chaplin
  2. ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (29 October 2021). "Clarissa Luke". The Telegraph.
  3. ^ 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.

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Professional and academic associations Preceded bySheffield Airey Neave Secretary of the Zoological Society of London 1952–1955 Succeeded bySolly Zuckerman Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded byEric Chaplin Viscount Chaplin 1949–1981 Extinct
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