OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 19946, 16 August 1928, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR C. It. CHAPMAN. 'To-day if. is announced from Auckland that Mr C. R. Chapman died there suddenly. At one time and another Mr Chapman was much in view of the public in Dunedin, and was made mayor in 1891-92. He was an Edinburgh man, born in 1847, sou of Mr Robert Chapman, who came out to Otago with his family (including Charles Robert) by the ship Blundell iu 1818. Ho was educated at the school which was originally the first church in Dunedin, subsequently studied at the Boys’ High School, of which he was one of the first scholars. In 1566 lie was articled to Mr Janies Macassoy (father of Mr Percy .Macassoy, Mr E. L. Maeassey, and "Mr J. E. Mncassey), and after a while went to tho office of Mr K. P. Kenyon to complete ills articles. Ho established a practice of his own iu 1873, soon after being admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supremo Court. Jn November of 1888 he stood for tho Dunedin mayoralty, and was defeated by Mr Hugh Gourley by 189 voles.- In December of 1890 he was elected to the City Council as a member for Bell Ward, and was made mayor tho following year. Ono of Ids leading activities was to procure trmu Andrew Carnegie the cost, of the Dunedin Public Library Building. Ho also interested himself in his father’s project of giving the Thomas Burns Monument to the city.