Chappell & Co.

Originally concentrating on music publishing and concert promotion, the firm started manufacturing pianos in the 1840s.

Thomas conceived of and sponsored the Monday and Saturday Popular Concerts at St James Hall (1859), which was partly owned by the family.

The concerts were successfully managed by a younger brother, Samuel Arthur Chappell until they came to an end in 1901.

[7] William Boosey wrote: The name of Tom Chappell stood for that commercial integrity which has given the English people so proud a position in the world of commerce.

In all the many departments of business which he controlled, to clearness of judgment and broadness of views he added a splendid liberality: sure factors of success in any walk in life.

I found him ... princely in his generosity; and it was not merely what he gave, but his way of giving, that endeared him so much to the many he benefacted ... he was a man to respect as well as to love.

On 15 May 1964, three days after the death of Max Dreyfus in the United States, the London building was destroyed by fire but was subsequently rebuilt.