Edward Chapman (1839 – 25 July 1906) was a British academic and Conservative politician. Chapman was educated at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree in Natural Science in 1864. he subsequently became a tutor at Magdalen College in 1868, and 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 Ashmolean Societies.

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  • Edward Chapman (1839 – 25 July 1906) was a British academic and Conservative politician. Chapman was educated at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree in Natural Science in 1864. he subsequently became a tutor at Magdalen College in 1868, and 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 Ashmolean Societies. He inherited shares in the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, and went on to become a director and deputy chairman of its successor Great Central Railway. In 1900 he was elected as Conservative MP for Hyde, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cheshire at the end of 1901. At the ensuing election in 1906 he was defeated by the Liberal candidate Charles Schwann. Chapman was found dead at his home in Mottram, Cheshire on 25 July 1906, apparently as the result of a fall. he was aged 67.
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  • 31 December 1901
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  • Edward Chapman (1839 – 25 July 1906) was a British academic and Conservative politician. Chapman was educated at Merton College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree in Natural Science in 1864. he subsequently became a tutor at Magdalen College in 1868, and 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 Ashmolean Societies.
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  • Edward Chapman (politician)
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