Educated at Ampleforth, George (Leo) Chamberlain subsequently attended Oxford University (University College) between 1958 and 1961, holding the Burn Open Scholarship in History, and following his graduation took a post at Ampleforth teaching history, theology, and politics.
He retired as Master in 2007 and was succeeded by Felix Stephens and became parish priest of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church,[2] Easingwold, Yorkshire.
His father, Noel, from a Catholic Lancashire family in 1895, had been the second Ampleforth alumnus to hold an open Award at Oxford (he was an Exhibitioner of University College).
After her own father's early death, she went to the Lawrence school on Mount Abu, and followed her mother into training as a nurse.
[citation needed] His father's military career meant that, according to his mother, the family lived in 18 different homes in Leo's childhood and youth.
After an interval in Egypt, marred by discovery of ill health, said to be an obscure form of tuberculosis, Leo went to Gilling Castle, Ampleforth's prep school, in 1949, but spent most of the next two years in the hands of doctors in England and Switzerland.
He established the college bookshop on a more ambitious scale from 1968, ran the business side of the Ampleforth Journal, and for some 25 years built up the golf course with devoted teams of boys who preferred looking after grass to games.
He worked for a time with the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need, and for a long period with Keston Institute, promoting directly aid to the Church and people of Poland in the Solidarity period, and, in 1990 set up the first major international conference of Christians from east and west at Ampleforth.