Chapman

Family title

Baronet

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Estate(s)

Name	Description
Chapman	Benjamin Chapman, a captain in Cromwell’s army, was granted an estate at Killua, county Westmeath, containing 1,163 acres in 1667. His great grandson, another Benjamin, was created a baronet in 1782. In the mid-nineteenth century the first baronet’s nephew Sir Benjamin Chapman held an estate mainly located in the parish of Killua but also in the parishes of Kilcumrereagh, Killare, Kilbeggan, Faughalstown, Leny and Portnashangan, totaling 9,516 acres in the 1870s. Parts of his estate had been purchased from the Delamare and Naper families in previous years. Sir Benjamin’s brother William of Southhill, Delvin, held lands in the county Westmeath parishes of Castledevlin, Castletownkindalen, Kilkenny West, Newtown and Noughaval, amounting to 4,707 acres in the 1870s. Sir Montague Chapman was among the principal lessors in the parish of Street, barony of Moyguish, County Westmeath at the time of Griffiths Valuation. T E Lawrence ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, was the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th and last Baronet. Sir Benjamin and William Chapman, two members of the Chapman family of Killua Castle, county Westmeath, owned a sporting estate in the parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, county Mayo in the 1870s, formerly part of the estate of the Earls of Arran. They still owned untenanted land in the locality in 1906. Some of their county Mayo estate was occupied by Charles Thomas Warde at the time of Griffith's Valuation. The Chapmans had accepted an offer from the Congested Districts' Board for their Co Mayo estate of 2,666 acres by March 1916.
Naper (Littleton)	The Napers of Littleton, county Westmeath, were a branch of the Loughcrew family from county Meath. General William Naper of Littleton (died 1771) was the son of Robert Naper (died 1739) brother of James Naper of Loughcrew who married Anne Dutton. Due to prolonged law suits about the validity of the General’s marriage to Anne Fitzgerald in 1761 and the legitimacy of their son William, much of the Napers’ Westmeath estate was sold to their lawyer, John Hogan in 1805, who in turn sold it to Sir Thomas Chapman and William Daniel.