Education
Chapman was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1948.
Chapman was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1948.
He was on the staff of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1971 to 1973 and became Special Adviser to the Electronic Communications Committee Commission on Environmental Policy in 1981. From 1985 to 1988, he was Director of Wembley Stadium. After being initially Deputy-Chairman, from 1975 to 1987 he was Chairman of the Telford Development Corporation at a time of extensive development of the Telford New Town, in which he demanded better designed council housing and office developments.
He lived during his time in post within the new town, once describing the land within which it was to sit as "21 square miles dominated by a coalfield in final decline".
After retirement, he emigrated to Hawaii, United States.A. but continued to have interest in the area as Chairman of the Maxell Educational Trust which was formed by Hitachi Maxell, one of the industrial companies he encouraged to move into Telford. He was created a life peer as Baron Northfield, of Telford in the County of Shropshire on 20 January 1976.
Lord Northfield never married and died in Honolulu aged 89.
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Birmingham Northfield from 1951 until he stood down in 1970.