Kenneth Chance

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| alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge

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Kenneth Macomb Chance (1879–1969) was an English industrialist and founder of British Industrial Plastics, who served as Sheriff of Warwickshire.

Chance was born on 16 July 1879, at Edgbaston, Birmingham (then in Warwickshire),{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/2080/2080429/2080429.html|title=Kenneth Chance|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=19 September 2016}} the son of Alexander Macomb Chance and Florence Mercer. Chance's fraternal grandmother was Cornelia de Peyster, whose ancestors were Dutch and Huguenot settlers in British North America and Loyalist to the Crown.Howard, Joseph Jackson. Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 3. Great Britain, 1895, pages 63,71 He was educated at Bilton Grange School, Warwickshire, Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he played cricket for Trinity College's Second XI

He served as director (from 1901), managing director (from 1906), and chairman (from 1933) of British Cyanides,{{cite web|url=http://www.bip.co.uk/history-people.htm|title=BIP Key People|publisher=British Industrial Plastics|accessdate=19 September 2016|archive-date=6 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206001933/http://www.bip.co.uk/history-people.htm|url-status=dead}} and was MD & Chairman of its sister company British Industrial Plastics Ltd. He wrote a history of British Cyanides.{{cite web|url=http://www.bip.co.uk/history1894.htm|title=1894–1926: The British Cyanides Company Limited|publisher=British Industrial Plastics|accessdate=19 September 2016}}

In 1944, he gave the Society Of Chemical Industry's first Chance Memorial Lecture, on the subject of his father.{{cite book|last=Chance|first=Kenneth Macomb |title=Alexander Macomb Chance: The first Chance memorial lecture|year=1944|publisher=Society of Chemical Industry}}

He was Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1948–1949.{{London Gazette|issue=38325|page=1811|date=12 March 1947}} At that time, his address was listed as Radford Manor, at Radford Semele, near Leamington Spa.

Chance was also a keen egg-collector, forming between 1925 and 1938 a complete collection of Warwickshire birds' eggs which is now in the possession of his grandson.{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}

He died on 9 January 1966.

Kenneth Chance's younger brother was the industrialist and ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance.