# Hugh Chapman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hugh_Chapman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hugh_Chapman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Chapman > Source revision: 1241946371 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Liberal politician in London and Anglican clergyman}} {{Use British English|date=March 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} The Rev ''' Hugh Boswell Chapman ''' (5 November 1853 – 1 April 1933) was a British [Liberal politician](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) and Anglican priest. He was a [Progressive](/source/Progressive_Party_(London)) member of the [London County Council](/source/London_County_Council) from 1889 to 1892. {{Infobox person | name = Hugh Boswell Chapman | honorific_prefix = The Rev | birth_date = 5 November 1853 | death_date = 1 April 1933 | education = [Tonbridge School](/source/Tonbridge_School) }} ==Early life== Chapman was born in London in 1853,West Ham Registry Office, December quarter 1853, Vol 4A, page 29. the son of Henry Chapman and his wife Priscilla (née Wakefield). Gen Sir [Edward Chapman](/source/Edward_Chapman_(British_Army_officer)) (1840-1926) and Sir Arthur Wakefield Chapman (1849-1926) were older brothers. He was the grandson of the philanthropist and statistician [Edward Wakefield](/source/Edward_Wakefield_(statistician)) and great-grandson of the Quaker philanthropist [Priscilla Wakefield](/source/Priscilla_Wakefield). He was educated at [Tonbridge School](/source/Tonbridge_School)Hughes-Hughes, WO, ''The Register of Tonbridge School from 1820 to 1893'', (1893: Richard Bentley) p 141. and [Keble College, Oxford](/source/Keble_College%2C_Oxford) (BA, 1875).''Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 1932, p 223. ==Clerical career== He was ordained deacon in 1878 and priest in 1881. He served his title under the Rev the Hon [Adelbert Anson](/source/Adelbert_Anson) (subsequently a bishop in Canada) at [St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich](/source/St_Mary_Magdalene_Woolwich) (1878-1880) and then at [St Paul's, Newington](/source/St_Paul's_Church%2C_Newington) (also known as St Paul's, Lorrimore Square) (1881-1885), arriving at the latter shortly after the [Bishop of Rochester](/source/Bishop_of_Rochester), Dr [Thorold](/source/Anthony_Thorold), had imposed an Evangelical Vicar on the extreme Anglo-Catholic parish, prompting the mass exodus of the congregation to the nearby [St Agnes, Kennington Park](/source/St_Agnes%2C_Kennington_Park).{{Cite web|url=https://www.archive.spectator.co.uk/article/4th-december-1880/3/the-parishioners-of-st-pauls-lorrimore-square-walw|title=''Spectator'': "The parishioners of St. Paul's, Lorrimore Square, Walworth, are not in a very happy frame of mind", 4 December 1880|access-date=29 March 2022}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.stagneskenningtonpark.co.uk/about-st-agnes-church.html|title=St Agnes, Kennington Park: Our History|access-date=29 March 2022}} During his time at Lorrimore Square he was [Chaplain to the Forces](/source/Chaplain_to_the_Forces) in Egypt during the [Anglo-Egyptian War](/source/Anglo-Egyptian_War) of 1882. He was Vicar of St Luke's, [Camberwell](/source/Camberwell) (1885-1909) and then Chaplain at the [Savoy Chapel](/source/Savoy_Chapel) (1909-1933). Chapman was a proponent of the Normyl treatment for alcoholism.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137724140 |title=CAN DRUNKENNESS BE CURED? |newspaper=[Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser](/source/Jerilderie_Herald_and_Urana_Advertiser) |volume=XI |issue=1136 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 March 1906 |accessdate=29 March 2022 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} He was an active supporter of [Father Damien](/source/Father_Damien)'s leper hospital in Hawaii.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47041327 |title=THE LEPER HOSPITAL. |newspaper=[South Australian Register](/source/South_Australian_Register) |volume=LIII |issue=13,129 |location=South Australia |date=11 December 1888 |accessdate=29 March 2022 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} He established a "Hugh Boswell" Lodge of the [Independent Order of Odd Fellows](/source/Independent_Order_of_Odd_Fellows) at St Luke's; the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev [Edward Talbot](/source/Edward_Talbot_(bishop)) was initiated as a member in 1901.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1901_03_01_250|title=''Church Times'', 1 March 1901, p 250|access-date=29 March 2022}} St Luke's had a notable reputation under Chapman: [Princess Mary, the Duchess of Teck](/source/Princess_Mary_Adelaide_of_Cambridge) (the mother of [Queen Mary](/source/Mary_of_Teck)) was a regular visitor, and he was responsible for decorations being installed by [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin)'s [Century Guild of Artists](/source/Century_Guild_of_Artists), [Herbert Horne](/source/Herbert_Horne), [Frederic Shields](/source/Frederic_Shields), [Selwyn Image](/source/Selwyn_Image), and [Edward Burne-Jones](/source/Edward_Burne-Jones).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1953_03_20_219|title=''Church Times'': "HM Queen Mary's Mother's Church", 20 March 1953, p 219|access-date=29 March 2022}} (The church was bombed in 1941, and rebuilt.) The Savoy Chapel was widely known during Chapman's incumbency as a location where divorced persons were permitted to marry or to have their civil marriages blessed.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article183567174 |title=NOTED CHAPLAIN |newspaper=[Glen Innes Examiner](/source/Glen_Innes_Examiner) |volume=8 |issue=1165 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 August 1933 |accessdate=31 March 2022 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} Notable weddings included that of [Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough](/source/Consuelo_Vanderbilt) and Lt Col [Jacques Balsan](/source/Jacques_Balsan) in 1921{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19210905.2.33|title=''Gisborne Times'', Volume LV, Issue 6175, 5 September 1921, Page 5|access-date=30 March 2022}} and [Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt](/source/Edith_Stuyvesant_Gerry) and Senator [Peter Goelet Gerry](/source/Peter_Goelet_Gerry) in 1925.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19251223.2.103.15.17|title=''Waikato Times'', Volume 99, Issue 16681, 23 December 1925, Page 4 (Supplement)|access-date=30 March 2022}} A condition of such 'benedictory' services was that there be no publicity.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19220918.2.51|title=''Ashburton Guardian'', Volume XLIII, Issue 6944, 18 September 1922, Page 7|access-date=30 March 2022}} Nevertheless, in 1926 Chapman refused to marry Lord Sholto Douglas and Mrs Mendelssohn Pickles, on the basis they were the guilty parties in their respective divorces.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239859486 |title=PARTIES IN DIVORCE |newspaper=[The Labor Daily](/source/The_Labor_Daily) |issue=838 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 October 1926 |accessdate=29 March 2022 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} Chapman's successor as Chaplain, the Rev Cyril Cresswell, immediately brought an end to the marriage of divorced persons in the Chapel.{{Cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19330926.2.91|title=''Timaru Herald'', Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19604, 26 September 1933, Page 9|access-date=30 March 2022}} ==London County Council== Chapman was elected to the newly-formed [London County Council](/source/London_County_Council) for [Camberwell North](/source/Camberwell_North_(London_County_Council_constituency)) (in which St Luke's was situated) in 1889 as a [Progressive](/source/Progressive_Party_(London)). He did not seek re-election in 1892. His brother, Cecil Maurice Chapman, was a [Moderate Party](/source/Moderate_Party_(London)) member for [Chelsea](/source/Chelsea_(London_County_Council_constituency)) from 1895 to 1898. ==Works== Chapman was the author of a number of books. *''The Seven Last Words of Love'' (1885: Griffith Farran & Co) *''Sermons in Symbols'' (1888: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co) *''Where is Christ?'' (1890: Swan Sonnenschein & Co) *''Steps to the Higher Life'' (1897: Swan Sonnenschein & Co) *''Proverbs in Practice'' (1909: F. H. Morland) *''At the Back of Things'' (1911: Duckworth & Co) *''The soul of women’s suffrage'' (1912: Corrigan & Wilson) *''Home Truths about the War'' (1917: G. Allen & Unwin) ==Personal life== Chapman was unmarried. During his incumbency at the Savoy Chapel, he lived at the [National Club](/source/National_Club%2C_London), at 12 [Queen Anne’s Gate](/source/Queen_Anne%E2%80%99s_Gate).{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33942/page/3503|title=''London Gazette'', 23 May 1933, p 3503|access-date=30 March 2022}} He died in a nursing home in 1933, aged 79.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1933_04_07_418|title=''Church Times'': "Clerical Obituary", 7 April 1933, p 418|access-date=29 March 2022}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, Hugh}} Category:People educated at Tonbridge School Category:Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Category:Members of London County Council Category:1853 births Category:1933 deaths Category:Progressive Party (London) politicians --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hugh Chapman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Chapman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Chapman?action=history)). 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