Hugh Boswell Chapman

The Reverend Hugh Boswell Chapman (5 November 1853 - 1 April 1933) was a Church of England clergyman and politician.

The ninth son of Henry Chapman of Walthamstow, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Keble College, Oxford graduating in 1875, and was ordained a priest three years later. His first clerical post was as a curate at St Mary's, Woolwich, moving to St Paul's Newington, in 1881. During the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 he served as an army chaplain.

In 1885 he became vicar of St Luke's, Camberwell. A well-known preacher, he became involved in social issues. When the first London County Council elections were held, he was nominated to contest the Camberwell North electoral division. He welcomed the creation of the county council and saw it as a means of creating "quiet, well-ordered streets, plenty of light, air and water, and clean, wholesome houses". He was elected to the council, and accepted the whip of the Liberal-backed Progressive Party, who won a majority on the council. He served only a single three-year term, retiring from the council in 1892.

Chapman continued as vicar of st Luke's until 1909, when he was nominated by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to the position of chaplain of the Chapel Royal, Savoy. He retained the post until his death, aged 80.