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 Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme (22 April 1833 – 21 October 1907), was a prominent English shipowner who became head of the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. shipping business. Together with his brother he expanded the activities of the ...

and Florence Wellesley. He was educated at

Radley College Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or the College of St. Peter at Radley, is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (independent boarding school) for boys near the village of Radley, in Oxfordshire, in the United Kingd ...

. During 1935 and 1936, Chaplin went on a zoological expedition to

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. He was Secretary of the

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between 1952 and 1955, and a member of its Council. Chaplin studied

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in Paris with

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between 1936 and 1939. He served as an Officer in the

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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

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Sir Tom Bridges. They had one daughter: * Hon. Oenone Clarissa Chaplin (12 April 1934 – 8 October 2021) The marriage to Alvilde was dissolved in 1950 and on 16 March 1951 he married secondly Rosemary Lyttelton (1922–2003), daughter of

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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 in Belgravia, London, when in the absence of male heirs, the viscountcy became extinct.

Ancestry

References

External links

* ‘CHAPLIN’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
accessed 21 May 2011
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