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

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, landowner, farmer, politician, and baronet.

Life

Chute was the son of Chaloner William Chute, 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

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. In August 1912, at

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, he married Laura Joan Baker, the daughter of the late Robert Lowbridge Baker, Vicar of

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. Serving in the British Army during the

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, Chute rose from staff captain to brigade major of 164 Infantry Brigade and in 1919 was awarded the

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. 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

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of the parish of Great Moulton,

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, to

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, and his successors. In 1931, he remained patron of the parish of

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. 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

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and served as its chairman from 1938 to 1955. In May 1939, he was appointed as Chairman of the

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for Hampshire. In July 1952, in the

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, a

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, of

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in the

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, 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

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. 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

Arms

Chute’s arms were

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Life

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