Education
Duckworth-Chad was educated at West Downs School, Winchester, and Eton College.
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Anthony Duckworth-Chad
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Public 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. He now serves as a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk.
In 1999, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to the Country Landowners" Association and the Rural Community.
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). Duckworth-Chad"s paternal grandmother, Lady Margaret Herbert, was a daughter of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon.
After her husband"s death, Duckworth-Chad"s great-grandmother Julia Duckworth married secondly the author Leslie Stephen. Duckworth-Chad"s great-uncle Gerald Duckworth founded the London publishing firm of Duckworth & Company
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).
