Anthony Duckworth-Chad

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.

Education

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

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. [LondonGazette|issue=52868|startpage=5025|endpage=5026|date=20 March 1992|accessdate=2008-05-27] He now serves as a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk. [LondonGazette|issue=53556|startpage=1097|date=25 January 1994|accessdate=2008-05-27]

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.

Family

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.

Royal connexions

Duckworth-Chad's wife, Sarah, is a cousin of 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.

References

* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p6632.htm Anthony Duckworth-Chad at ThePeerage.com]
* [http://worldroots.com/cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I43192@ Anthony Duckworth-Chad at Worldroots.com]
* Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
* Gresham's School
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/princewilliam/girls.html Davina Duckworth-Chad]