William Donald Chapman, Baron Northfield (25 November 1923 – 18 April 2013)[1] was a British Labour politician.

Chapman was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1948.

He lived during his time in post within the new town, once describing the land within which it was to sit as "21 square miles dominated by a coalfield in final decline".

[3] He was created a life peer as Baron Northfield, of Telford in the County of Shropshire on 20 January 1976.

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