CHAPPLE, FM Sir John GCB CBE 1931-2022
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Richard R
Mar 28, 2022, 4:23:06 AM3/28/22
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From the Telegraph of 28 March 2022: CHAPPLE Field Marshal Sir John Chapple GCB CBE MA (Cantab) DL, died peacefully, aged 90, at home in Bishopstone, Salisbury on 25th March 2022. Loving husband to Annabel for 63 years and father of Rachel, David, Kate and Sasha. Inspiring grandfather to Christopher, Bertram, Horatio, Titus, Sophie, Magnus, Hrishikesh, Pushan, Anish and Anoushna. Private family funeral. Memorial service in due course. Donations please to Horatio's Garden Charity, 2 Throope Down, Salisbury...
He was s of C H CHAPPLE. He m 1959 Annabel HILL and had a son & three daus, of whom Rachel Lucy m 1987 (div 1991) as his 1st w Lord John Patrick TOWNSHEND b 1962 (s of 7th Marquess TOWNSHEND 1916-2010 who currently holds the record for the longest tenure as a peer 1921-2010).
He was s of C H CHAPPLE. He m 1959 Annabel HILL and had a son & three daus, of whom Rachel Lucy m 1987 (div 1991) as his 1st w Lord John Patrick TOWNSHEND b 1962 (s of 7th Marquess TOWNSHEND 1916-2010 who currently holds the record for the longest tenure as a peer 1921-2010).
Richard R
Mar 28, 2022, 4:51:46 AM3/28/22
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He was s of Charles Herbert CHAPPLE 1885-1970 by his 1919 m reg Q3 London to Elsie LYON 1900-88. He sometime Governor of Gibralta
Obit in the Times of 28 March 2022:
E X T R A C T
Field Marshal Sir John Chapple obituary
Widely respected head of the army during the Gulf war who was a stabilising figure during a period of swingeing defence cuts
As a child, John Chapple was introduced to Rudyard Kipling at Brown’s Hotel in London, where the great imperial author had written The Jungle Book. If Kipling had lived longer, he would surely have found a place in his books for the awed four-year-old and later colourful soldier, for Chapple was a late product of empire and steeped in its history, fighting some of its final battles as a Gurkha in the jungles of the Far East...
...he received the customary field marshal’s baton, the last chief of the general staff to do so. Deeming that the army (and the other two services) were no longer big enough to justify “five-star” rank to its retiring heads, his successor, on appointment as chief of the defence staff (CDS) as a field marshal, abolished the practice, as well as, indeed, the active five-star rank for the appointment, the rank now solely honorary...
...John Lyon Chapple was born in 1931 in Maida Vale, London, the son of Elsie Lyon, a doctor, and Charles Herbert Chapple, a Royal Engineers officer who served in France and Mesopotamia (Iraq) during the First World War...
...Meanwhile, through a Cambridge friend, he had met Annabel Hill, a diving star on whose fingertips entering the water a UK girls’ diving trophy was modelled. “I proposed to her almost immediately,” he said later, “but it took three and a half years to persuade her to say yes.” The attempts included a pursuit across America. They were married in 1959, and Annabel survives him with four children: Rachel, a social anthropologist and founder of the Real Stories Gallery Foundation charity; David, a consultant spinal surgeon; Kate, chief sub-editor at the Financial Times How to Spend It magazine, and Sasha, a mother...
Field Marshal Sir John Chapple, GCB, CBE, DL, chief of the general staff, was born on May 27, 1931. He died on March 25, 2022, aged 90, after a short illness
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/field-marshal-sir-john-chapple-obituary-q03zzzspw
Obit in the Times of 28 March 2022:
E X T R A C T
Field Marshal Sir John Chapple obituary
Widely respected head of the army during the Gulf war who was a stabilising figure during a period of swingeing defence cuts
As a child, John Chapple was introduced to Rudyard Kipling at Brown’s Hotel in London, where the great imperial author had written The Jungle Book. If Kipling had lived longer, he would surely have found a place in his books for the awed four-year-old and later colourful soldier, for Chapple was a late product of empire and steeped in its history, fighting some of its final battles as a Gurkha in the jungles of the Far East...
...he received the customary field marshal’s baton, the last chief of the general staff to do so. Deeming that the army (and the other two services) were no longer big enough to justify “five-star” rank to its retiring heads, his successor, on appointment as chief of the defence staff (CDS) as a field marshal, abolished the practice, as well as, indeed, the active five-star rank for the appointment, the rank now solely honorary...
...John Lyon Chapple was born in 1931 in Maida Vale, London, the son of Elsie Lyon, a doctor, and Charles Herbert Chapple, a Royal Engineers officer who served in France and Mesopotamia (Iraq) during the First World War...
...Meanwhile, through a Cambridge friend, he had met Annabel Hill, a diving star on whose fingertips entering the water a UK girls’ diving trophy was modelled. “I proposed to her almost immediately,” he said later, “but it took three and a half years to persuade her to say yes.” The attempts included a pursuit across America. They were married in 1959, and Annabel survives him with four children: Rachel, a social anthropologist and founder of the Real Stories Gallery Foundation charity; David, a consultant spinal surgeon; Kate, chief sub-editor at the Financial Times How to Spend It magazine, and Sasha, a mother...
Field Marshal Sir John Chapple, GCB, CBE, DL, chief of the general staff, was born on May 27, 1931. He died on March 25, 2022, aged 90, after a short illness
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/field-marshal-sir-john-chapple-obituary-q03zzzspw
colinp
Mar 28, 2022, 4:23:10 PM3/28/22
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In fact the present Lord Monk Bretton overtook the 7th Marquess Townshend as the peer with the longest tenure on 3 January this year - see my post of that date in this thread -
Peers who held titles for the longest time. (google.com)
George
Mar 29, 2022, 5:22:37 PM3/29/22
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A few connections:
Lady CHAPPLE is a great-granddaughter of John HILL (1842–1927), banker, by Elizabeth Llewellyn PALMER (1844–68), of the gentry family LLEWELLEN-PALMER of Great Somerford (see BLG 1972), elder half-sister of Brig.-Gen. George Llewellen PALMER (1857–1932), C.B., E.D., M.P. for Westbury 1918–22, they being the children of Michael PALMER (1814–91), D.L., J.P., of Berryfield Hall (or House), Wiltshire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Palmer_(British_Army_officer)
https://daryledmonds.com/index.htm?ssmain=berryfield.htm;
It was Sir John's grandson, Horatio Jervis Lyon CHAPPLE, who was killed in Svalbard on 5 August 2011.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=horatio-jervis-lyon-chapple&pid=153133624
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Svalbard_polar_bear_attack
Lady CHAPPLE is a great-granddaughter of John HILL (1842–1927), banker, by Elizabeth Llewellyn PALMER (1844–68), of the gentry family LLEWELLEN-PALMER of Great Somerford (see BLG 1972), elder half-sister of Brig.-Gen. George Llewellen PALMER (1857–1932), C.B., E.D., M.P. for Westbury 1918–22, they being the children of Michael PALMER (1814–91), D.L., J.P., of Berryfield Hall (or House), Wiltshire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Palmer_(British_Army_officer)
https://daryledmonds.com/index.htm?ssmain=berryfield.htm;
The Brigadier-General had a son, Col. William LLEWELLEN PALMER, who married Lady Alexandra Augusta WYNN-CARINGTON, dau. of the 1st and last Marquess of LINCOLNSHIRE; and a daughter, Madelaine, who married (1st) Hon. Felix Charles Hubert HANBURY-TRACY, son of the 4th Baron SUDELEY, and (2ndly) Wing-Commander Caryl Liddell HARGREAVES, son of Alice Pleasance LIDDELL (known as the inspiration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and scion of the RAVENSWORTH barons and STRATHMORE & KINGHORNE earls.
Lady CHAPPLE's elder sister, Geraldine Llewellen HILL (1925–2016), was married to Keith Ronald LAURENCE (1920–2001), son of Admiral Sir Noel Frank LAURENCE (1882–1970), K.C.B., D.S.O.
Lady CHAPPLE's descent from her great-grandparents is as follows:
John HILL (1842–1927), banker, m. (1st, 1867) Elizabeth Llewellyn PALMER (1844–68); m. (2ndly, 1870) Florence Jameson WATERLOW (1847–1900), dau. (by Isabella JAMESON) of Alfred James WATERLOW, elder brother of Sir Sydney Hedley WATERLOW, 1st Baronet, K.C.V.O., of the family of Waterlow and Sons, engravers.
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(By 1st marriage) Charles Llewellen John HILL (1868–1939), banker, m. (1st, 1896, div. 1908) Mabel Edith (1873–1945), dau. of Joseph Bartholomew TICKLE; m. (2ndly, 1909) Violet (1876–1958), the divorced wife of Frederick Page BARTON, and dau. of John Henry TAYLOR. (Violet was the mother, by her first husband, of Sheila BARTON who m. Major Norman Edwin BARTLETT, son of Sir Herbert Henry BARTLETT, 1st Baronet.)
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(By 1st marriage) John Basil Llewellen HILL (1897–1976), managing director of Hedges & Butler, wine merchants, m. (1925) Joan (1901–74), dau. of Ernest Edward LUCY (1861–1944).
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Lady CHAPPLE's elder sister, Geraldine Llewellen HILL (1925–2016), was married to Keith Ronald LAURENCE (1920–2001), son of Admiral Sir Noel Frank LAURENCE (1882–1970), K.C.B., D.S.O.
Lady CHAPPLE's descent from her great-grandparents is as follows:
John HILL (1842–1927), banker, m. (1st, 1867) Elizabeth Llewellyn PALMER (1844–68); m. (2ndly, 1870) Florence Jameson WATERLOW (1847–1900), dau. (by Isabella JAMESON) of Alfred James WATERLOW, elder brother of Sir Sydney Hedley WATERLOW, 1st Baronet, K.C.V.O., of the family of Waterlow and Sons, engravers.
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(By 1st marriage) Charles Llewellen John HILL (1868–1939), banker, m. (1st, 1896, div. 1908) Mabel Edith (1873–1945), dau. of Joseph Bartholomew TICKLE; m. (2ndly, 1909) Violet (1876–1958), the divorced wife of Frederick Page BARTON, and dau. of John Henry TAYLOR. (Violet was the mother, by her first husband, of Sheila BARTON who m. Major Norman Edwin BARTLETT, son of Sir Herbert Henry BARTLETT, 1st Baronet.)
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(By 1st marriage) John Basil Llewellen HILL (1897–1976), managing director of Hedges & Butler, wine merchants, m. (1925) Joan (1901–74), dau. of Ernest Edward LUCY (1861–1944).
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Mrs. LAURENCE and Lady CHAPPLE.
It was Sir John's grandson, Horatio Jervis Lyon CHAPPLE, who was killed in Svalbard on 5 August 2011.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=horatio-jervis-lyon-chapple&pid=153133624
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Svalbard_polar_bear_attack
Richard R
Jul 4, 2022, 3:31:01 AM7/4/22
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From the Telegraph & Times of 4 July 2022:
Memorial Services
FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN CHAPPLE
Field Marshal Sir John Chapple GCB, CBE, DL at Royal Military Chapel, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 17th September 2022 at 2pm. The service will be followed by tea in Old College. To apply for tickets, please send an email highlighting your connection and address [...] by Sunday 31st July. Tickets will be posted 2nd Sep 2022.
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