Anthony Duckworth-Chad

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Anthony Nicholas George Duckworth-Chad OBE, DL, (born 1942), of Pynkney Hall, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, is a landowner, City of London business man, and a senior county officer for Norfolk.

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[edit] Education

Duckworth-Chad was educated at West Downs School, Winchester, and Eton College.

[edit] Public Life

He is a liveryman and past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of the City of London, Chairman of the Governing Body of Gresham's School, Holt, Vice-President of the Anglers’ Conservation Association, Trustee of the Country Land and Business Association Charitable Trust, and Trustee of the Rudhams Playing Fields Trust. In 1992, Duckworth-Chad was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk.[1] He now serves as a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk.[2]

In 1999, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Country Landowners' Association and the Rural Community.

[edit] Family

Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

In 1970, Duckworth-Chad married Elizabeth Sarah Wake-Walker, a granddaughter of the seventh Earl Spencer. They have three children, James Anthony de L'Estrang Duckworth-Chad (born 1972), William George Christopher (1975) and Davina Alice (1978).

Anthony Duckworth-Chad’s grandfather, Sir George Duckworth, was a half-brother of the writer Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell. His great-grandmother, born Julia Jackson, was a niece of Julia Margaret Cameron, the photographer, while his great-grandfather, Herbert Duckworth, was a barrister. After her husband's death, Julia Duckworth married secondly the author Leslie Stephen.

Duckworth-Chad's great-uncle Gerald Duckworth founded the London publishing firm of Duckworth & Co.

[edit] Royal connexions

Duckworth-Chad's wife, Sarah, is a cousin of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and he is also reported to be a close friend of Charles, Prince of Wales. His son James was Equerry to H.M. the Queen from 2001 to 2004, and his daughter Davina is a friend of her second cousins Prince William of Wales and Prince Henry of Wales, both of whom attended her marriage to Tom Barber at Pynkney Hall on 25 September 2004.

[edit] References

  1. ^ London Gazette: no. 52868, pages 5025–5026, 20 March 1992. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
  2. ^ London Gazette: no. 53556, page 1097, 25 January 1994. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.