CHUTE, Francis Chaloner (1929-2019)

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Francis Chaloner Chute died on 4 September at Barnham Manor Nursing Home, aged 90, husband of Rosamund and father to James, Carolyn, Corinna, Rachel, Theresa and Olivia, and grandfather and great-grandfather to his six grandchildren and one great-grandson; friend to his four step-sons, Simon, Ben, Rupert and Toby Leach. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St. Nicholas' Church, Arundel, on Friday, 27 September.

Source The Telegraph, 11 September 2019

born 12 February 1929, son of Mervyn Lyde Chute and of his second wife, Emerin Semple Keene.

This is the old LG Family Chute of the Vyne. His father's first cousin, Charles Lennard Chute, was created a Baronet in 1952 but died without issue in 1956.

[Jeff Rosenfeld]

Chute lineage was found in Burke's Landed Gentry ed. 1846, a portion of which is as follows:

"The Chutes were of long standing in the counties of Kent and Somerset, where they were originally settled. They were lords of the manor of Taunton,

until about the year 1500, when Edmund Chute sold the manor to Lord Denham. The Kentish branch of the family expired in 1700, on the death of

Sir George Chute, Bart.

Challoner Chute,son and heir of Charles Chute, Esq..of the Middle Temple, by Ursula, his wife, dau, of John Challoner, Esq.. of Fulham, purchased from Lord Sandys, in 1653, the estate of The Vine, co. Hants.."

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As it happens, the recent Chute of the Vyne family seems not to be directly descended from the original Chute of the Vyne family.

When John Chute of the Vyne (Horace Walpole's great friend) died in 1776, he was succeeded at the Vyne by Thomas Lobb, later Chute, whose mother, Elizabeth Chute, was John's first cousin. 

This Thomas Lobb Chute married Anne Rachel Wiggett. When their last son died in 1827, the Vyne was inherited by William Lyde 

Wiggett, who was son of Anne Rachel's first cousin, and thus not actually related to the earlier Chutes at all.

However, William Lyde Wiggett took the name Wiggett-Chute, and was great-grandfather of Francis Chaloner Chute. So this unrelated Wiggett family not only took the surname of the old Chute family, they frequently used the forename Chaloner, which was common in the original Chute family.

[G. Willis]

Interesting details, Mr Theroff- always intriguing to see family names like this tenaciously clinging on through distant hardly-relatives and Royal Licence!