Anthony Freskyn Charles Hamby Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin (14 December 1906 - 18 December 1981) was the third Viscount Chaplin

Viscount Chaplin

Viscount Chaplin, of Saint Oswald's, Blankney, in the County of Lincoln, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1916 for Henry Chaplin, a Tory MP, cabinet minister, country landowner and racehorse owner...

 and an amateur zoologist and musician.

Born in 1906, he was the son of Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin and late Hon. Gwladys Alice Gertrude Wilson, daughter of Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme.

In 1933 he married Alvilde, only daughter of Sir Tom Bridges; they had one daughter. In 1935 and 1936 he went on a zoological expedition to New Guinea

New Guinea

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. He studied musical composition

Musical composition

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 in Paris

Paris

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 with Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 between 1936 and 1939. During the Second World War he served as an Officer in the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 (1940-1946), achieving the rank of Flight Lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant

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. In 1949 he succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Chaplin. His marriage to Alvilde was dissolved in 1951, and in the same year he remarried Rosemary, daughter of Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...

. He was a member of the council of the Zoological Society of London

Zoological Society of London

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and its secretary 1952–1955. Upon his death in 1981 the Viscountcy became extinct.

External links

• ‘CHAPLIN’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 21 May 2011