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Arthur Chapman (1838 – 8 May 1909) was a businessman in Adelaide, South Australia, closely associated with the Theatre Royal, Adelaide. HistoryJames Chapman, a tailor and draper of Kent, England, emigrated to South Australia with his wife Mary and their seven children aboard Rajah, arriving at Adelaide in April 1850. He founded a drapery on Hindley Street, at that time the premier business strip in the young city. Arthur Chapman was educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution and began working for his father, then after some experience at the gold diggings at Goulburn, Victoria, where he worked as assistant in a general store for three years, returned to Adelaide and took up some clerical work.[1] He then went into business on his own account at the Register Chambers as liquidator, in 1869 taking on Michael Kingsborough as partner, in Kingsborough & Chapman, land agents and investment brokers, with an office in the Advertiser Building.[1] Among their staff was Harry Dickson Gell, later chairman of trustees of the State Bank.[2] They dissolved the partnership seven years later, and in 1886 Chapman went into business as hotel broker and licensed valuator, with an office in Pirie Street.[3]On the death that year of his brother Edgar Chapman, of the brewing firm of Simms & Chapman, he took over management of his estate, which included the Theatre Royal in Hindley Street, though he was acting for the ailing brother as early as 1883,[4] In January 1885 he had joined George Rignold and James Allison as lessee and in December they withdrew from the partnership, leaving Chapman as sole manager[5] until Wybert Reeve became lessee in 1887. Chapman initiated extensive alterations in 1905 at a cost of over £4,000 and a rebuild of the theatre in 1913–1914 at a cost of £21,000.[6] He was a prominent Freemason.[7] FamilyJames Chapman (1804 – 15 June 1879) married Mary Stanford (1804 – September 1895). Their children included:
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196727074 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Evening Journal |volume=I, |issue=120 |location=South Australia |date=26 May 1869 |accessdate=16 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, Arthur}}2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163123621 |title=The State Bank. Mr. H. D. Gell Elected Chairman |newspaper=The Observer |volume=LXXI, |issue=5,479 |location=South Australia |date=7 March 1914 |accessdate=16 May 2017 |page=36 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36333270 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |volume=XXIX, |issue=8668 |location=South Australia |date=30 July 1886 |accessdate=16 May 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92720324 |title=Theatre Royal Improvements |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |volume=XXV, |issue=1,292 |location=South Australia |date=26 May 1883 |accessdate=17 May 2017 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160747893 |title=Entertainments |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |volume=XLII, |issue=2307 |location=South Australia |date=19 December 1885 |accessdate=17 May 2017 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57856982 |title=Concerning People |newspaper=The Register |volume=LXXIV, |issue=19,497 |location=South Australia |date=10 May 1909 |accessdate=15 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5725123 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Advertiser |volume=LI, |issue=15,775 |location=South Australia |date=10 May 1909 |accessdate=15 May 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3 : 1838 births|1909 deaths|Australian theatre managers and producers |
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