Christopher Chancellor - Family

Family

He was married in 1926 to Sylvia Mary Paget (1 July 1901 London - 26 October 1996 Shellingford, Oxfordshire), eldest daughter of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, 2nd Bt by his wife Lady Muriel Finch-Hatton, only surviving child of granddaughter maternally of the 12th Earl of Nottingham & Winchilsea, who was himself descended from a sibling of Jane Austen. His wife Lady Chancellor was made OBE 1976 for her philanthropic activities.

Children:

1. John Paget Chancellor (b. 1927) md 1959 (div 1968) Hon (Mary) Alice Jolliffe (d. 2009), only daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton and his wife Lady Perdita Asquith, herself daughter of Raymond Asquith, eldest son of H.H. Asquith), British Prime Minister in the early 20th century. They had issue, one son and three daughters. (Mary Jolliffe remarried Hon. Richard Windsor-Clive, by whom she had a daughter, but they divorced after 25 years of marriage).
   1. Isabel Rose Chancellor (b. 1959) married 1982 (John) Joseph Boothby (b. 1947), eldest and elder surviving son of (Evelyn) Basil Boothby, CMG, sometime Ambassador to Iceland, of the Boothby baronets by his wife Susan Penelope Asquith, third daughter of Brigadier Arthur Melland Asquith, third son of H.H. Asquith. They have issue, two sons and a daughter. Isabel's sister-in-law Emily Boothby is wife of author Piers Paul Read.
   2. Katherine Sylvia Anthony Chancellor (b. 1961) married 1stly 1989 (div 1997) Will Self (William Woodard Self) (b. 1961) the novelist, by whom she has issue, one son and one daughter. She married 2ndly 1992 the chef Rowley Leigh.
   3. (John) Edward Chancellor, "Eddie" (b. 1962), formerly a banker with Lazard Brothers in London, now an investment manager. He is the author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (1999). In February 2009 he married Antonia Phillips, former wife of Martin Amis.
   4. Anna Chancellor (born 27 April 1965), actress, best known as the Sloaney "Duckface" in Four Weddings and a Funeral. She md 1993 (div 1998). Nigel Willoughby, by whom she had no issue. Anna also has a daughter Poppy (b. 1988) by a prior relationship.
2. a daughter, died young of spinal meningitis in China.
3. Teresa Chancellor (b. 1933) md 1stly 1953 (div 1977) Edward Victor Gatacre; they had issue two sons and three daughters. She married 2ndly 1982 John Campbell Wells, artist (d. 1998), and had further issue one daughter.
4. Susanna Maria Chancellor (b. 1935) md 1958 Nicholas Johnston; they had issue, one son and three daughters, of whom the eldest daughter married Percy Weatherall and the youngest daughter married his younger brother.
5. Alexander Surtees Chancellor (b. 4 January 1940) md 2 June1964 Susanna Elisabeth Debenham;, only daughter of Martin Ridley Debenham (younger brother of Sir Piers Debenham, 2nd Bt. (d.1964), who married Lady Chancellor's younger sister, and of Sir Gilbert Debenham, 3rd Bt.). They had issue, including
   1. Elizabeth Beatrice (Eliza) Chancellor (b. 22 December 1964); married 3 Nov 1990 Alexander Waugh, elder son of Auberon Waugh (himself eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh and his wife Lady Teresa Onslow, eldest daughter of Earl Onslow. They have issue.
   2. Cecilia Mary Chancellor (b. 1 September 1966), model; she has issue. In late 2005, she was reported to be engaged to John Powlett "Jo" Colman (b 1962), publisher and CEO of Psychology Today and other formerly defunct magazines. Colman is the younger son of Sir Michael Colman, 3rd Bt.

Chancellor's sister Rosemary married Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliott, and was the mother of Simon John Elliot who is married to (Sonia) Annabel Shand, sister of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.