{{Use British English|date=June 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2026}} '''Robert Kingsley Chappell''', KC (29 November 1884 – 11 August 1937) was an English barrister and judge.
The son of George and Emily Chappell, of Wimbledon, Chappell was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, and the University of Liverpool (LLB).<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=31 October 1934 |title=Manx High Court: New Judge of Appeal |work=The Times |pages=16}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Who's Who|title=Chappell, Robert Kingsley|id=U207397|type=was}}</ref> He passed the Law Society's final examinations in 1906, before heading to the bar.<ref name=":1" /> He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1909 and joined the Northern Circuit.<ref name=":1" /> During the First World War, he saw active service from 1915 and was twice mentioned in despatches.<ref name=":1" />
Chappell was appointed a KC in 1929.<ref name=":0" /> He was made acting Deemster of the Isle of Man in 1934 in order to sit with Sir Harold Derbyshire KC (Judge of Appeal) on Kaye Don's appeal against conviction and sentence for manslaughter by Deemster Farrant.<ref name=":0" /> The same year, he succeeded Derbyshire, who had been appointed Chief Justice of Bengal, as Judge of Appeal of the Isle of Man.<ref name=":0" /> He was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1937, but died at the Ramsey Cottage Hospital the same year while on holiday on the Isle of Man.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=13 August 1937 |title=Mr. R. K. Chappell, K.C. |work=The Times |pages=14}}</ref>
Chappell married Constance Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Smith, of Birkdale, Lancashire; they had two sons and a daughter.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />
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