Charles Chute

Sir Charles Lennard Chute, 1st Baronet MC (6 May 1879 – 29 September 1956), was an English barrister, landowner, farmer, politician, and baronet.

Chute on the cover of the Eton college magazine, 4 June 1898

Life

Chute was the son of Chaloner William Chute, a barrister.[1] He was educated at Eton, where in 1898 he was Captain of the School,[2] and at Magdalen College, Oxford, then qualified as a barrister at the Inner Temple.[3] In August 1912, at Radley, he married Laura Joan Baker, the daughter of the late Robert Lowbridge Baker,[1] Vicar of Ramsden.[4]

Serving in the British Army during the First World War, Chute rose from staff captain to brigade major of 164 Infantry Brigade and in 1919 was awarded the Military Cross.[5] The citation stated that the decoration was awarded “for great gallantry and devotion to duty as Brigade Major at the Bac de Wavrin on 16th October, 1918.[6]

The Vyne

In 1924, Chute gave the advowson of the parish of Great Moulton, Norfolk, to Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, and his successors.[7] In 1931, he remained patron of the parish of Sherborne St John.[8]

In February 1925, Chute stated his occupation as farmer and his address as Popley Fields, Basingstoke, in travelling with his wife by a Dutch steamer from Algiers to Southampton.[9] In the same year, he was first elected to Hampshire County Council and served as its chairman from 1938 to 1955. In May 1939, he was appointed as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Hampshire.[10] In July 1952, in the 1952 Birthday Honours, a baronetcy, of The Vyne in the County of Southampton, was created for him, for public services in Hampshire.[11] As he had no sons, it became extinct on his death four years later.[12]

Chute died on 29 September 1956[3] at the Chest Hospital in Southampton, leaving an estate valued at £208,789, with his brother, the Ven. John Chaloner Chute, Archdeacon of Sherborne, as his Executor.[13] He bequeathed The Vyne, his family home and estate, to the National Trust.[14] At his death he still owned the advowson of Sherborne St John, and in 1957 his Executors gave it to the Bishop of Winchester.[15]

John Chaloner Chute died in 1961, leaving an estate valued at £58,588. His Executor was Anthony Vere Chute, a pedigree pig breeder.[16]

Arms
Chute arms on a chimneypiece in the library at the Vyne

Chute’s arms were blazoned

Quarterly 1st and 4th gules three swords barways the points towards the dexter proper pommels and hilts or and for distinction a canton ermine (Chute); 2nd and 3rd ermine three mullets 2 and 1 azure pierced gules on a chief wavy sable a dove regardant proper (Wiggett); and for crest a dexter cubit arm in armour, the hand gauntleted grasping a broken sword in bend sinister proper hilt and pommel or.[17]

References
  1. Marriages solemnized in the parish church of Radley in the County of Oxford, p. 84, no. 168, 6 August 1912; “Charles Lennard Chute”, in Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 June 2022 (subscription required)
  2. The Amphibian, 4 June 1898, p. 1
  3. “Chute, Sir Charles (Lennard), (1879–29 Sept. 1956), Barrister-at-law, Inner Temple”, Who’s Who', online edition, accessed 4 June 2022 (subscription required)
  4. "Death of the Rev. R. Lowbridge Baker", Oxford Times, 30 January 1904, p. 8
  5. Obituary in The Times, 2 October 1956
  6. The London Gazette, 8 October 1919, Issue 13510, p. 3251
  7. The London Gazette, 25 March 1924, Issue 32921, p. 2527
  8. The London Gazette, 25 December 1931, Issue 33783, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33783/page/8330 p. 8330
  9. “Charles Leonard Chute” [sic] in UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, SS Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Arrival 27 Feb 1925, Southampton, England
  10. The London Gazette, 5 May 1939, Issue 34622, p. 2987
  11. "No. 39597". The London Gazette. 15 July 1952. p. 3815.
  12. Extinct and Dormant United Kingdom Baronetcies, cracroftspeerage.co.uk
  13. “CHUTE sir Charles Lennard baronet of The Vyne Basingstoke Hampshire” in Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1956 (1957), p. 288
  14. "Brief history of the house at The Vyne". National Trust. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  15. The London Gazette, 2 August 1957, Issue 41141, p. 4563
  16. “CHUTE the venerable John Chaloner of The Hollies Buckland Newton Dorchester Dorset retired archdeacon” in Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1961 (1962), p. 270
  17. “Chute of the Vyne: Charles Lennard Chute” in Bernard Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Founded by the Late Sir Bernard Burke, vol. I (1937), p. 412; James Fairbairn, Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland (1993), p. 115

Further reading
  • Francis Chute, The Chutes of the Vyne: An Illustrated History of the Chute family and their 300 year connection with stately home The Vyne at Basingstoke in Hampshire (Woodfield Publishing, 2005) ISBN 978-1903953921
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