{{Short description|British Conservative politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Colonel The Right Honourable | name = Edward Chaplin | honorific_suffix = | office = Member of Parliament for Lincoln | term_start = 1874 | term_end = 1880 | predecessor = Charles Seely<br>John Hinde Palmer | alongside = Charles Seely | successor = Charles Seely<br>John Hinde Palmer | birth_date = {{birth date|1842|03|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = Ryhall, Rutland | death_date = {{death date and age|1883|12|23|1842|03|28|df=yes}} | death_place = Marylebone, London | parents = Henry Chaplin<br>Caroline Horatia Ellice | spouse = {{marriage|Lady Guendolen Chetwynd-Talbot<br>|18 January 1877|1883|reason=died}} | children = Muriel Theresa Chaplin<br>Sibell Evelyn Chaplin | relations = Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (brother) }} Colonel '''Edward Chaplin''' (28 March 1842 – 23 December 1883) was a British Conservative politician.
==Early life== Chaplin was born on 28 March 1842 at Ryhall, Rutland into an old Lincolnshire family. He was the son of Rev. Henry Chaplin and Caroline Horatia Ellice. Among his siblings was elder brother Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin, who inherited substantial estates in Lincolnshire (including the family seat of Blankney Hall), Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/debrettshouseo1886londuoft|title=Debrett's House of Commons|year=1867 |publisher=London Dean|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/10800|title=Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery|website=www.ucl.ac.uk}}</ref>
His maternal grandfather was William Ellice. Among his family were his niece, Edith (who married the 7th Marquess of Londonderry), and nephew, Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin.<ref name="Burke1921"/>
==Career== Chaplin served as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Coldstream Guards.<ref name="Burke1921">{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |last2=Burke |first2=Ashworth Peter |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage |date=1921 |publisher=Burke Publishing Company |page=476 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/Ojf7hxCDt9cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA476 |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
Chaplin sat as Member of Parliament for Lincoln alongside Charles Seely between 1874 and 1880.<ref name="Fox-Davies1895">{{cite book |last1=Fox-Davies |first1=Arthur Charles |title=Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority |date=1895 |publisher=Jack |page=898 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Armorial_Families/KDw6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA898 |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== On 18 January 1877, Chaplin was married to Lady Guendolen Theresa Chetwynd-Talbot,<ref name="Dean1887">{{cite book |title=Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage |date=1887 |publisher=Dean and Son |page=634 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Peerage_Baronetage_Knightage_Companionag/D-U5lNCprNcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA634 |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> a daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anna Theresa Cockerell (a granddaughter of architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell and grandniece of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet).<ref name="Cokayne1949">{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Rickerton to Sisonby |date=1949 |publisher=St. Catherine Press, Limited |isbn=978-0-904387-82-7 |page=729 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Complete_Peerage_of_England_Scotland/Dp29FRH0bN8C?hl=en&gbpv=1 |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="Raineval1994">{{cite book |last1=Raineval |first1=Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et |title=The Blood Royal of Britain: Being a Roll of the Living Descendants of Edward IV and Henry VII, Kings of England, and James III, King of Scotland |date=1994 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-8063-1431-0 |page=419 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Blood_Royal_of_Britain/BS45AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
* Muriel Theresa Chaplin (1877–1947), who died unmarried.<ref name="Raineval1994"/> * Sibell Evelyn Chaplin (1879–1960), who married Thomas Arthur Armstrong, a son of Maj. Arthur John Armstrong, in 1919.<ref name="WC1923">{{cite book |last1=College |first1=Winchester |title=Winchester College, 1867-1920 |date=1923 |publisher=P. and G. Wells |page=184 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Winchester_College_1867_1920/ZbowAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA184 |access-date=27 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
Chaplin died at Marylebone, in the City of Westminster, in December 1883, aged 41.<ref name="Burke1921"/> His wife later remarried Maj. Archibald Cosmo Little, son of Gen. Sir Archibald Little, in 1887, before her death in January 1937.<ref name="Burke1921"/>
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== External links == *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-edward-chaplin | Edward Chaplin }}
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