Edward Chapman (12 October 1839 – 25 July 1906) was a British academic and

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politician. He was the son of John Chapman and his wife Ann née Sidebottom, of Hill End House,

Hollingworth Hollingworth is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. It is about 11 miles (19 km) east of Manchester on the Derbyshire border near Glossop. Historically part of Cheshire, it gave its name to a ...

, near

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, Cheshire. John Chapman was

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for

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and a major landowner, having made a fortune from the development of railways and docks. Edward Chapman was educated at

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, having been graduated with a first-class honours degree in Natural Science in 1864.''Obituary'', The Times, 2 August 1906, p.10 He obtained a

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in 1866, and subsequently became a tutor at

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in 1868. He was appointed a public examiner in the Honours School of Science. He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College in 1882. He was curator of the University Botanic Gardens, and a member of the Linnean and

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Societies. He married Elizabeth Beardoe Grundy in 1863. In 1877, his father died and he inherited shares in the

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, and became a director and deputy chairman of its successor

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.''Obituary'', The Times, 26 July 1906, p.7 He was also a director of the

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and

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companies and chairman of

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. He was

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, an estate purchased by his father. He was involved in local politics, elected as president of the Hyde Conservative Association in 1895, and for twenty years was chairman of the Mottram

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. In

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, he was elected as Conservative MP for Hyde, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

at the end of 1901. At the ensuing election in 1906 he was defeated by the

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candidate Charles Schwann. Chapman was found dead at ''Hill End'' on 25 July 1906, apparently as the result of a fall. He was aged 67.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, Edward 1839 births 1906 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Cheshire UK MPs 1900–1906 Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of Merton College, Oxford People from Mottram in Longdendale Councillors in Cheshire Directors of the Great Central Railway