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Sir Benjamin Chapman, 1st Baronet

Irish landowner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ75569037 ↗
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Sir Benjamin Chapman, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish landowner.

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Sir Benjamin had Killua Castle, County Westmeath built as his family home. He was created first baronet of Killua Castle on 10 February 1782. He died in 1810 and was succeeded by his brother Sir Thomas Chapman, 2nd Baronet.

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“Sir Benjamin Chapman, 1st Baronet” enters the record as irish landowner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Benjamin, Chapman and Baronet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sir Benjamin Chapman, 1st Baronet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.