Kenneth Macomb Chance (1879–1969) was an English industrialist and founder of British Industrial Plastics, who served as Sheriff of Warwickshire.
Chance's fraternal grandmother was Cornelia de Peyster, whose ancestors were Dutch and Huguenot settlers in British North America and Loyalist to the Crown.
[1] While at Cambridge, he played cricket for Trinity College's Second XI[1] He served as director (from 1901), managing director (from 1906), and chairman (from 1933) of British Cyanides,[3] and was MD & Chairman of its sister company British Industrial Plastics Ltd.[1] He wrote a history of British Cyanides.
[4] In 1944, he gave the Society Of Chemical Industry's first Chance Memorial Lecture, on the subject of his father.
[6] Chance was also a keen egg-collector, forming between 1925 and 1938 a complete collection of Warwickshire birds' eggs which is now in the possession of his grandson.