John Chapman (Grimsby MP)

John Chapman JP DL (1810 – 18 July 1877)[1] was a British Conservative Party[2] politician who served for two three-year terms as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby.

[1][2] He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire and served as High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1855,[4][5] and was chairman and later director of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway,[6] and a director of the Bridgwater Navigation Company.

[5] Chapman died at his house at Hill End in Mottram where he was also lord of the manor of Hattersley and as such supported the residents of the area including presenting them with a free library.

[5] Chapman had been a magistrate in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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