[1][2] At Salisbury his attention was specially attracted to the Liturgical and other Ecclesiastical lore appertaining to the Cathedral, and to Saint Osmund, its Bishop from 1078 to 1099.
Saint Osmund compiled from different sources a series of Divine Offices, and Rules for their celebration within his diocese.
[3] The use of these Rules became very extensive; and although in certain parts the Uses of York, Hereford, Bangor, and Lincoln varied, yet John Brompton, the Cistercian Abbot of Jervaulx, writing within a hundred years after Saint Osmund's death, says that these Rules and Offices had been adopted throughout England, Wales, and Ireland.
[6][4] Chambers married, on 7 August 1834, the Honourable Henrietta Laura, third daughter of John, 2nd Lord Wodehouse.
According to John Julian, "His translations of Latin hymns are close, clear and poetical; they have much strength and earnestness, and the rhythm is easy and musical".