Walter Chepman

Walter Chepman (died 1532) was a Scottish merchant, notary and civil servant active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

In 1503, to coincide with the King's marriage, James presented Chepman with a suit of clothes of English fabric.

[3] Walter Chepman traded in imported textiles and timber and regularly supplied goods to the King.

Its works included a liturgical text known as The Aberdeen Breviary[2] and 'The Chepman and Myllar Prints'[1] which were a series of pamphlets containing popular literature in Scots and English.

[4] The first chapel, founded in 1513 and abutting to the south of the church, offered masses for the souls of Chepman, his first wife and of the King and Queen.

Walter Chepman was a patron of The High Kirk of Edinburgh, also known as Saint Giles' Cathedral.
Memorial to Walter Chepman in St. Giles' Cathedral erected in 1879 by William Chambers LLD.
Walter Chepman's device in his print of The Goldyn Targe.