# Viscount Chaplin

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{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
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thumb|200px|The future first Viscount Chaplin in 1859, aged 18
'''Viscount Chaplin''', of Saint Oswald's, [Blankney](/source/Blankney), in the [County of Lincoln](/source/County_of_Lincoln), was a title in the [Peerage of the United Kingdom](/source/Peerage_of_the_United_Kingdom).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29629 |date=20 June 1916 |page=6065}}</ref> It was created in 1916 for [Henry Chaplin](/source/Henry_Chaplin%2C_1st_Viscount_Chaplin), who was a [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) [MP](/source/Member_of_Parliament), [cabinet](/source/Cabinet_(government)) [minister](/source/political_minister), country landowner and racehorse owner. The title became extinct upon the death of his grandson, the third Viscount, in 1981.

The Chaplin family descended from Sir Francis Chaplin, [Lord Mayor of London](/source/Lord_Mayor_of_London) from 1677 to 1678. Sir Francis was the father of Robert Chaplin, who was created a [baronet](/source/baronet) in 1715 (see [Chaplin baronets](/source/Chaplin_baronets)), and John Chaplin, ancestor of the Viscounts Chaplin.

[Edith Chaplin](/source/Edith_Vane-Tempest-Stewart%2C_Marchioness_of_Londonderry), daughter of the first Viscount, married [Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry](/source/Charles_Vane-Tempest-Stewart%2C_7th_Marquess_of_Londonderry), and became a well-known socialite and philanthropist. [Edward Chaplin](/source/Edward_Chaplin_(MP)), younger brother of the first Viscount, was also a politician.

==Viscounts Chaplin (1916)==
*[Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin](/source/Henry_Chaplin%2C_1st_Viscount_Chaplin) (1840–1923)
*[Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin](/source/Eric_Chaplin%2C_2nd_Viscount_Chaplin) (1877–1949)
*[Anthony Freskyn Charles Hamby Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin](/source/Anthony_Chaplin%2C_3rd_Viscount_Chaplin) (1906–1981)

==Arms==
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|image = centre|150pxcentre|200px
|escutcheon = Ermine on a chief indented Vert three griffins' heads erased Or.
|crest = A griffin's head erased Or gorged with a mural coronet Vert.<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1934 |page=514}}</ref>
|motto = In Coela Quies
|supporters = Dexter upon a garb fesswise Proper banded Gules a hawk wings endorsed and inverted Argent beaked membered and the inside of the wings Or suspended from the neck by a riband Sable an escutcheon of the arms of Sutherland (i.e. Gules three mullets Or within a bordure of the last charged with a double tressure flory counterflory of the field). Sinister a chestnut-coloured racehorse in a white headstall banded rose colour pendant therefrom a blue lead all Proper.}}

==See also==
*[Chaplin baronets](/source/Chaplin_baronets)

==References==
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;Sources
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/190 | location=[London](/source/London) |publisher=[Dean & Son](/source/Dean_%26_Son)|page=190}}
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

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Category:Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Category:Noble titles created in 1916
Category:Peerages created for UK MPs

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