Anthony Duckworth-Chad

Anthony Nicholas George Duckworth-Chad {{postnominals|country=GBR|OBE|DL}} (born 1942), of Pynkney Hall, in Tattersett near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, is a landowner, City of London business man, and a senior county officer for Norfolk.

Education

Duckworth-Chad was educated at West Downs School, Winchester, and Eton College.

Public life

He is a liveryman and past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of the City of London, Chairman of the Governing Body of Gresham's School, Holt, Vice-President of the Anglers’ Conservation Association, Trustee of the Country Land and Business Association Charitable Trust, and Trustee of the Rudhams Playing Fields Trust.

In 1992, Duckworth-Chad was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk.{{London Gazette|issue=52868|pages=5025–5026|date=20 March 1992}} He now serves as a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk.{{London Gazette|issue=53556|page=1097|date=25 January 1994}}

In 1999, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Country Landowners' Association and the Rural Community.

Family

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He is the son of Anthony John Stanhope Duckworth, the son of George Herbert Duckworth and Margaret Leonora Evelyn Selina Herbert. Anthony Duckworth-Chad's grandfather, Sir George Duckworth (1868–1934), was a half-brother of the painter Vanessa Bell and the writer Virginia Woolf (the latter charged George and her other half-brother, Gerald, with molesting her as a child and teenager).Roger Poole, The Unknown Virginia Woolf, Cambridge University Press, 1978, pages 27-34 His great-grandmother, born Julia Prinsep Jackson, was a niece of Julia Margaret Cameron, the photographer, while his great-grandfather, Herbert Duckworth, was a barrister. After her husband's death, Duckworth-Chad's great-grandmother Julia married secondly the author Leslie Stephen. Duckworth-Chad's paternal grandmother, Lady Margaret Herbert, was a daughter of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, making him a cousin of Auberon Waugh.

Duckworth-Chad's great-uncle Gerald Duckworth founded the London publishing firm of Duckworth & Co. Duckworth-Chad agreed to become the heir of his great-uncle's widow with the stipulation that he would add her maiden name, Chad, to his own.

In 1970, Duckworth-Chad married (Elizabeth) Sarah Wake-Walker, a granddaughter of the seventh Earl Spencer. They have three children, James Anthony de L'Etang Duckworth-Chad (born 1972), William George Christopher (1975) and Davina Alice (1978).

Duckworth-Chad's wife, Elizabeth Wake-Walker, is a first cousin of Diana, Princess of Wales.