Viscount Chaplin, of Saint Oswald's, Blankney, in the County of Lincoln, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1916 for Henry Chaplin

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin PC was a British landowner, racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 until 1916 when he was raised to the peerage....

, a Tory

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 MP

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, cabinet

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 minister, country landowner and racehorse owner. The title became extinct upon the death of his grandson, the third Viscount, in 1981.

Edith Chaplin

Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry

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, daughter of the first Viscount, married Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry

Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry

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, and became a well-known socialite and philanthropist. Edward Chaplin

Edward Chaplin (MP)

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, younger brother of the first Viscount, was also a politician. The Chaplin family descended from Sir Francis Chaplin, Lord Mayor of London

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 from 1677 to 1678. Sir Francis was the father of Robert Chaplin, who was created a Baronet in 1715 (see Chaplin Baronets

Chaplin Baronets

The Chaplin Baronetcy, of the Inner Temple, London, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 19 September 1715 for Robert Chaplin, Member of Parliament for Grimsby, with remainder to his nephew, Porter Chaplin. Chaplin was the son of Sir Francis Chaplin, Lord Mayor of...

), and John Chaplin, ancestor of the Viscounts Chaplin.

Viscounts Chaplin (1916)

• Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
  Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin
  Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin PC was a British landowner, racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 until 1916 when he was raised to the peerage....
  
   (1840–1923)
• Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin (1877–1949)
• Anthony Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin
  Anthony Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin
  Anthony Freskyn Charles Hamby Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin was the third Viscount Chaplin and an amateur zoologist and musician.Born in 1906, he was the son of Eric Chaplin, 2nd Viscount Chaplin and late Hon...
  
  (1906–1981)