Journalist, lawyer, newspaper proprietor and editor, judge, philologist. Lawyer and free-trade exponent who came to New Zealand as Judge of the Supreme Court, Southern Division, in 1843. Father of Sir Frederick Revans Chapman (1849-1936).
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BAPTISM: England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 FHL Film Number: 0254603-0254607 (Ancestry) Henry Samuel Chapman, 20 Aug 1803 Saint Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, England
BIRTH & DEATH: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22
MARRIAGE to Selina Carr: VIC BDM 1868/1131
Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925, 16 July 1868, Selina Frances Carr, father Thomas C Carr, Spouse H S Chapman, marriage date 11 April 1868
New Zealand Mail, 7 January 1882, Page 8, Obituary via Papers Past, obituary of Hon. Henry Samuel Chapman; born at Kensington, London, on 21 July 1803; son of Henry Chapman, Esq., who was for many years connected with the Barrack Department (now abolished) of the Civil Service.
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