John Chapple - Personal Life

Personal Life

In 1959 Chapple married Annabel Hill; they have one son and three daughters. Their eldest daughter is Rachel Lucy Chapple a Social Anthropologist - she has four children and lives in New York. Chapple and Hill's son is David Charles Lyon Chapple, a consultant orthopaedic and spinal surgeon; David's sons are Titus (or Titan, per the Daily Mail) and Magnus England Chapple; David's eldest son, the late Horatio Chapple, was killed by a polar bear in Svalbard in August 2011. Field Marshal Chapple was once president of BSES, the charity that had organised the trip.

His interests include military history.

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