Sir Charles Lennard Chute, 1st Baronet MC (6 May 1879 – 29 September 1956), was an English

barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...

, landowner, farmer, politician, and baronet.

Life

Chute was the son of

Chaloner William Chute Chaloner William Chute (1 August 1838 – 1892) was an English barrister and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He was the heir to The Vyne estate near Basingstoke, Hampshire. Life He was the son of William Lyde Wiggett, who too ...

, a barrister.''Marriages solemnized in the parish church of Radley in the County of Oxford''
p. 84, no. 168, 6 August 1912
“Charles Lennard Chute”, in ''Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930'', ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 June 2022 He was educated at Eton, where in 1898 he was Captain of the School, and at

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, then qualified as a barrister at the Inner Temple. In August 1912, at Radley, he married Laura Joan Baker, the daughter of the late Robert Lowbridge Baker, Vicar of Ramsden. Serving in the British Army during the First World War, Chute rose from staff captain to brigade major of 164 Infantry Brigade and in 1919 was awarded the Military Cross. The citation stated that the decoration was awarded “for great gallantry and devotion to duty as Brigade Major at the Bac de

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on 16th October, 1918. The Vyne House

In 1924, Chute gave the advowson of the parish of

Great Moulton Great Moulton (also known as Moulton St Michael) is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Until the 16th century it also included the Little Moulton parish. It covers an area of and had a population of 699 in 289 households at the 2 ...

, Norfolk, to Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, and his successors. In 1931, he remained patron of the parish of

Sherborne St John Sherborne St John is a village and civil parish near Basingstoke in the English county of Hampshire. History The village was named in the Domesday book as ''Sireburne''. It became ''Shireburna'' (12th century), Schyreburne (13th century) and Shi ...

. In February 1925, Chute stated his occupation as farmer and his address as Popley Fields, Basingstoke, in travelling with his wife by a Dutch steamer from Algiers to Southampton. In the same year, he was first elected to Hampshire County Council and served as its chairman from 1938 to 1955. In May 1939, he was appointed as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Hampshire. In July 1952, in the

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, a baronetcy, of

The Vyne The Vyne is a Grade I listed 16th-century country house in the parish of Sherborne St John, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire, England. The house was first built ''circa'' 1500-10 in the Tudor style by William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, Lord Cha ...

in the County of Southampton, was created for him, for public services in Hampshire. As he had no sons, it became extinct on his death four years later. Chute died on 29 September 1956“Chute, Sir Charles (Lennard), (1879–29 Sept. 1956), Barrister-at-law, Inner Temple”
'' Who’s Who, online edition, accessed 4 June 2022 at the Chest Hospital in Southampton, leaving an estate valued at £208,789, with his brother, the Ven. John Chaloner Chute, Archdeacon of Sherborne, as his Executor. He bequeathed

, his family home and estate, to the National Trust. At his death he still owned the advowson of Sherborne St John, and in 1957 his Executors gave it to the Bishop of Winchester. John Chaloner Chute died in 1961, leaving an estate valued at £58,588. His Executor was Anthony Vere Chute, a pedigree pig breeder.“CHUTE the venerable John Chaloner of The Hollies Buckland Newton Dorchester Dorset retired archdeacon” in ''Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1961'' (1962), p. 270

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Life

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